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24-512: In addition to the sultan's sarcophagus, it contains seven other tombs: those of his sons Mustafa , Mahmud and Yusuf, his daughters Selçuk , Ayşe and Sitti and his wet nurse (Daye Hatun). Set amid cypresses on top of the hill in the Yeşil neighborhood in Bursa , the mausoleum stands higher than the rest of the complex. It is built on a hexagonal plan and crowned with a hemi-spherical dome. The exterior of

48-580: A bridge on the Nilüfer Creek on the road route from Bursa to Karacabey . She also constructed the "Selçuk Hatun Lodge", where money was donated daily for charity purposes, under the auspices of Hacı Halife. She also commissioned a tomb in Kastamonu , where her children had been buried after their deaths. Selçuk Hatun constructed another mosque in her name in Istanbul , and was constructed during

72-821: The Roman Empire . Although the term Byzantine Empire is used by modern historians, the empire's citizens and emperors called themselves Romans, meaning Greek-speaking Eastern Romans, and embraced a Christian identity. Various languages in the Balkans have long used the descriptor "Roman" to refer to the lands of the former Eastern Roman Empire. The term survives in several languages in the region: Albanian : Rumelia ; Bulgarian : Румелия , Rumeliya ; Greek : Ρωμυλία , Romylía , or Ρούμελη, Roúmeli ; Macedonian ; and Serbo-Croatian : Румелија , Rumelija ; as well Romanian : Rumelia . The old Latin documents in Genoa use

96-820: The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Anatolia and the Balkans in the second half of the 14th century and after the conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul ) in 1453 by Mehmed II , the term Rumeli came to apply exclusively to the Balkan region of the Ottoman Empire. The region remained primarily populated by Christians ; though gradually, the Albanians , Bosniaks and Pomaks , as well as many Greeks , Serbs , Bulgarians and Vlachs converted to Islam . Many grand viziers , viziers , pashas and beylerbeyis were originally from Rumelia. Rumelia included

120-755: The "Sultanate of the Roman Empire" or "Roman Sultanate", which mostly covered central Anatolia until the Battle of Köse Dağ in 1243. Anatolia was referred to as Land of the Christians, hence Rum. Afterwards, it was replaced by the Anatolian beyliks , among which the Ottoman Beylik rose to prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries and eventually became the Ottoman Empire . However, following

144-435: The carved wooden doors, the royal catafalque stands on a platform at the center surrounded by seven other tombs. It is richly decorated with scriptures and flower designs painted in yellow, white and blue glazed tiles . The lower section of walls is lined with blue-green tiles, also used in tympana of windows on the interior. The muqarnas niche of mihrab on the qibla wall is also set in a large frame of ornamental tilework:

168-622: The current Turkish populations of the Balkans and the descendants of Turkish immigrants from the Balkans. The region in Turkey is also referred to as Eastern Thrace , or Turkish Thrace. In Greece , the term Ρούμελη ( Rumeli ) has been used since Ottoman times to refer to Central Greece , especially when it is juxtaposed with the Peloponnese or Morea. The word Rumeli is also used in some cases, mostly in Istanbul, to refer exclusively to

192-484: The daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I and one of his concubine, Kumru Hatun. She was the half-sister of Sultan Murad II . Selçuk Hatun was born in 1407 in Merzifon . Her father was Mehmed I and her mother was the concubine Kumru Hatun. Due to Ottoman Interregnum , her father resided in the different places. After the political turmoil ended with her father defeating his brothers in 1413, he finally succeeded

216-479: The death of her father-in-law in 1439, her husband Ibrahim Bey, became the ruler of Kastamonu. After his death, she moved back to Bursa in 1443. In the same year she remarried with Beylerbeyi Karaca Pasha, who died in the battle of Varna in 1444. In 1445, Selçuk give birth a posthumously daughter, Hundi Hatun. In 1481, after the death of her nephew Mehmed the Conqueror , a fight for the throne began between

240-517: The main town. Following the administrative reorganization made by the Ottoman government between 1870 and 1875, the name Rumelia ceased to correspond to any political division. Eastern Rumelia was constituted as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Berlin (1878) , but on September 6, 1885, after a bloodless revolution, it was united with Bulgaria . The Kosovo Vilayet

264-414: The mausoleum is clad with the green-blue tiles that give it its name. A majority of the tiles were replaced by contemporary Kütahya tiles following damage in the 1855 Bursa earthquake . The entry portal is crowned with a semi-umbrella vault and has muqarnas niches above marble seats on both side of the entrance. İznik tiles with flower patterns in blue, white and yellow adorn the portal. Inside, past

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288-401: The mosaic of tiles inside the niche depicts a garden of roses, carnations and hyacinths . The chandelier and the colored glass windows are later additions. (See also: Ottoman architectural decoration ) Sel%C3%A7uk Hatun Selçuk Hatun ( Ottoman Turkish : سلچوق خاتون  ; " honest, woman of her word "; c. 1407 – 25 October 1485) was an Ottoman princess,

312-521: The provinces of Thrace , Macedonia and Moesia , which are now Bulgaria and Turkish Thrace , bounded to the north by the rivers Sava and Danube , west by the Adriatic coast and south by the Morea . In the beginning the main town was the city of Plovdiv , then Sofia . The name "Rumelia" was ultimately applied to a province composed of central Albania and northwestern Macedonia, with Bitola being

336-438: The reign of her nephew, Mehmed. The mosque was burnt down due to fire, and was later reconstructed by Abbas Ağa, in the sixteenth century. In 1956, it was again demolished as a result of widening of the area, but later rebuilt by Ali Saim Ülgen in 1964. In 1484, Selçuk Hatun fell extremely ill, therefore Bayezid II had sent Yakut, the renowned physician in the empire to treat her but to no avail. She died on 25 October 1485 and

360-517: The remaining years. Selçuk Hatun built a mosque in her name near the Irgandı Bridge in 1450 in Bursa. She also constructed an imaret, which provided fresh and free food to the poor. In Edirne , she constructed another mosque in her name. She contributed exclusively in the development of Edirne. In Bursa, she had also built an imaret where fresh food was served to the poor. She constructed

384-402: The scholars in Bursa. The proposal was that Rumelia will be given to Bayezid and Anatolia to Cem, however this would destroy the unity of the country and divide it in two, she returned without getting results. On 22 June 1481, Bayezid managed to throw Cem off the throne and succeeded to the throne and he was exiled to Naples , where he died. Selçuk Hatun returned to Bursa, where she spent

408-749: The term Romania , the common name for the Byzantine Empire during the Middle Ages . Originally, the Seljuks used the name "Land of the Rûm " (Romans) to define Anatolia , which the armies of the Seljuk Empire gradually conquered from the Byzantine Empire after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate was called the Sultanate of Rum by its contemporaries, meaning

432-543: The throne and Selçuk Hatun moved to Edirne in the Edirne Palace and spent her childhood years there. After her father's death in 1421, her older half-brother Murad II succeeded to the throne and she moved to Bursa . In 1425, her brother arranged her marriage to Taceddin Ibrahim II Bey , he was the son of Candaroğlu İsfendiyar Bey , the ruler of Kastamonu and Sinop . She was eighteen years old at

456-427: The time of her marriage, following her wedding she moved to Kastamonu. Together with Ibrahim Bey, she had six children, three sons and three daughters. Her sons included Orhan Bey, Emir Yusuf Bey and Ishak Bali Bey, all of her sons died in childhood and infancy. Their daughters included Paşa Melek Hatun, Hafsa Hatun and Hatice Hanzade Hatun, who was the only one among her children to survive into adulthood. After

480-515: The two sons of Mehmed. Şehzade Bayezid and Cem Sultan rebelled against each other for the throne. She sided with Cem Sultan, when he unofficially declared himself as the sultan at her palace in Bursa on 31 May 1481. She saw Cem as a passionate, valiant and knowledgeable candidate for the throne. At her palace in Bursa, she had tried to gather many persons in order to stand against Bayezid. When Bayezid started to march towards Bursa Sultan Cem had sent her to Bayezid as an ambassador after consulting

504-516: Was buried in the mausoleum of her father Mehmed I Mausoleum, in Green Tomb , Bursa , Turkey . By her first husband, Selçuk Hatun had three sons and three daughters: By her second husband, she had a daughter: Rumelia Rumelia ( Ottoman Turkish : روم ايلى , romanized :  Rum İli , transl.  Land of the Romans ; Turkish : Rumeli ; Greek : Ρωμυλία )

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528-460: Was created in 1877. In Turkey , the word Trakya ( Thrace ) has now mostly replaced Rumeli (Rumelia) to refer to the part of Turkey that is in Europe (the provinces of Edirne , Kırklareli , Tekirdağ , the northern part of Çanakkale Province and the western part of Istanbul Province ). However, "Rumelia" remains in use in historical contexts and is still used in the context of the culture of

552-638: Was more often known in English as Turkey in Europe . Rûm in this context means "Roman", and ėli means "land" and Rumelia ( Ottoman Turkish : روم ايلى , Rūm-ėli ; Turkish : Rumeli ) means "Land of the Romans" in Ottoman Turkish . It refers to the lands conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, which formerly belonged to the Byzantine Empire , known by its contemporaries as

576-543: Was the name of a historical region in Southeastern Europe that was administered by the Ottoman Empire , roughly corresponding to the Balkans . In its wider sense, it was used to refer to all Ottoman possessions and vassals in Europe . These would later be geopolitically classified as "the Balkans", although Hungary , Moldova and Slovakia are often excluded. During the period of its existence, Rumelia

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