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The traditional narrative on Nilüfer is extremely confusing and conflicting because, being the mother of a reigning sultan but of slave origins, subsequent historians took care to "ennoble" her, attributing origins and stories to her that were actually fictitious or concerning other consorts of
372:: in fact, the abduction of Bilecik's daughter occurred in 1299, more than twenty years before Nilüfer's entry into the harem. Likewise, tradition wrote that Nilüfer was the consort of Orhan whom
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In March 1362, Orhan died and was succeeded as sultan by Nilüfer's son Murad I. Nilüfer thus became the first woman of
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An example of this is the way in which Nilüfer was described as a
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The date of Nilüfer's death is not known with certainty and is variously estimated between 1363 and 1383. She died in
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and was born in 1306, twenty years before the appearance of Nilüfer in the harem and the birth of Murad I.
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An other example is the fact that tradition attributed to Nilüfer the motherhood of
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met in Bursa in 1331, while this woman was, again, Bayalun or Asporça.
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and eighteen other buildings for various uses, especially charitable.
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in 1325. The following year, she bore Orhan a son, the future
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Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları
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The sarcophagos of Nilüfer Hatun is located inside the
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760:(in Turkish). Oğlak Yayıncılık. pp. 38–40.
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455:(in Turkish). Babıali Kültür Yayıncılığı.
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449:Pazan, İbrahim (2007). "Nilüfer Hatun".
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487:. Clarendon Press. pp. 83, 165 n4.
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252:Nilüfer Hatun was a slave concubine of
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632:"NİLÜFER HATUN İMARETİ"
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1589:Saliha Dilaşub Sultan
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656:Aşıkpaşazade (2008).
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1210:Osman Fuad Osmanoğlu
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434:Notes and references
314:Nilüfer Hatun Imaret
1715:14th-century slaves
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787:, 15th Ed., 2009,
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462:978-9944-118-31-6
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