Asporça Hatun ( ota, اسپورجہ خاتون) was a wife of Sultan

Orhan Orhan Ghazi ( ota, اورخان غازی; tr, Orhan Gazi, also spelled Orkhan, 1281 – March 1362) was the second bey of the Ottoman Beylik from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his re ...

of the Ottoman Empire. Possibly of Greek origin, Asporça was the mother of three or four of Orhan's children, Ibrahim Bey, Fatma Hatun and Selçuk Hatun, and according to some authors also Şerefullah Bey She appointed the first Ottoman grand vizier

Alaeddin Pasha Alaeddin Pasha, or Alaeddin Bey (''Alâeddin Paşa''; Söğüt, – Bursa, 1331), was the brother of Orhan I, who succeeded their father, Osman I, in the leadership of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a Turkish woman named Rabia Bala Hatun. It ...

as the representative for her foundations. In September 1323, her father-in-law,

Osman I Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( ota, عثمان غازى, translit= ʿOsmān Ġāzī; tr, I. Osman or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4), sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman, was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Bey ...

, granted her two villages, Narlı and Kiyaklı, which she then deeded to her descendants, making her son Ibrahim, or Ibrahim and Şerefullah, her executor. When she died, she was buried along with her husband Orhan in the tomb of the latter's father Osman, located in

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

; the original tomb having been replaced by two new tomb, her sarcophagus is housed in Osman's new tomb, while Orhan has his own tomb.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Asporca Hatun 14th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans 1300 births 1362 deaths 14th-century deaths Daughters of Byzantine emperors

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