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3 unusual facts about Mükrime Hatun


Mükrime Hatun

Sitti Mükrime hatun was born in 1435 in Elbistan the Kahramanmaraş Province of Turkey, into the Dulkadir State as a Dulkadir princess, one of the daughters of Süleyman Bey, the sixth ruler of Dulkadir State.

The most distinguished nobles of the land escorted the young girl across the mountains to the former Ottoman capital of Bursa, where the judges, the ülema and the sheikhs of the religious orders came to meet her in solemn procession and then onward across the Dardanelles.

Later Ayşe hatun, Süleyman Bey's grand daughter, was married to the future Sultan Bayezid II and became the step mother or according other sources the mother of Selim I, known as the grim.



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