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Nurbanu Sultan

1525 - 1583

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Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان; c. 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (r. 1566–1574), She served as Valide Sultan from 1574 until her death in 1583 as mother to Sultan Murad III (r. 1574–1595). She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nurbanu Sultan is the 19th most popular companion (down from 16th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Greece (up from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Companion.

Nurbanu Sultan was the wife of Selim II, and the mother of Murad III. She is most famous for her patronage of the arts, and for being the first woman to be portrayed on a Turkish coin.

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Among companions, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 19 out of 784. Before her are Imelda Marcos, Eva Braun, Aspasia, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Mihrimah Sultan, and Madame de Pompadour. After her are Klara Hitler, Catherine of Valois, Anne Hathaway, Maud of Wales, Messalina, and Nefertari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After her are Şehzade Bayezid, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Hans Staden, Zhang Juzheng, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Germain Pilon, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1583, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 1. After her are Catherine Jagiellon, Antoinette de Bourbon, Oichi, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Shibata Katsuie, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Oda Nobutaka, Andrey Kurbsky, Juan de Garay, and Pirro Ligorio.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 34 out of 1,024. Before her are Draco (-650), Spartacus (-109), Xenophon (-430), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Demosthenes (-384), and Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478). After her are Gorgias (-483), Themistocles (-524), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), and Leonidas I (-540).

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Among COMPANIONS In Greece

Among companions born in Greece, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 1. After her are Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (-506), Helen of Greece and Denmark (1896), Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921), Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904), Aspasia Manos (1896), and Eusebia (400).

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