COMPANION

Nurbanu Sultan

1525 - 1583

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Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان, "queen of light"; c. 1525/1527 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as well as Valide Sultan (Sultana mother) as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583). She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nurbanu Sultan has received more than 1,451,668 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Nurbanu Sultan is the 16th most popular companion (down from 8th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Greece (down from 27th 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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  • 42

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  • 11.81

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  • 2.07

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 16 out of 784. Before her are Mihrimah Sultan, Catherine de' Medici, Klara Hitler, Helena, Empress Joséphine, and Eva Braun. After her are Nefertari, Joseph Bonaparte, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Aspasia, Marie Leszczyńska, and Bathsheba.

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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, Hans Staden, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Abbakka Chowta, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1583, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 1. After her are Catherine Jagiellon, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Oichi, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Shibata Katsuie, Ivan Fyodorov, Surdas, Oda Nobutaka, Pirro Ligorio, and Andrey Kurbsky.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 35 out of 1,024. Before her are Xenophon (-430), Demosthenes (-384), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Leonidas I (-540), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), and Ptolemy I Soter (-367). After her are Cleisthenes (-565), Gorgias (-483), Themistocles (-524), Solon (-638), Myron (-500), and Alcibiades (-450).

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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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