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 ...
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
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 t ...
; the original tomb having been replaced by two new tomb, her sarcophagus is housed in Osman's new tomb, while Orhan has his own tomb.
See also
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
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Ottoman dynasty
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14th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
1300 births
1362 deaths
14th-century deaths
Daughters of Byzantine emperors