Hüma Hatun
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Hüma Hatun was a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad II and the mother of his successor, Mehmed II.
The sarcophagus of Hüma Hatun is located inside Muradiye Complex, in Bursa, Turkey
Mehmed II
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Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, from August 1444 to September 1446 and again from February 1451 to May 1481.
Hüma Hatun
…Hüma Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: هما خاتون; c. 1410 – September 1449) was a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad II and the mother of his successor, Mehmed II. Her exact place of birth, family background and origin is unknown. However an Ottoman inscription (waqf document) refers to her as “Hâtun binti…
Portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini, dating 1480
Accession of Mehmed II in Edirne, 1451
Rumelihisarı, built by Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452, before the Fall of Constantinople
The entry of Sultan Mehmed II into Constantinople, painting by Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929)