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Tuba Büyüküstün as Mara Branković (Sultana Mara) in Rise of Empires: Ottoman

costumes in rise of empires: ottoman [pt. 2]

Tuba Büyüküstün as Mara Hatun (stepmother and adoptive mother of Mehmed the Conqueror) in Netflix’s Rise of Empires: Ottoman – requested by @op-hilia

Leyla Feray as Hüma Hatun (the mother of Mehmed the Conqueror) in Netflix’s Rise of Empires: Ottoman

Büşra Develi - Marie Claire (August 2017)

“In his thirty years in power Sultan Mehmed had fought eighteen campaigns in person. The Ottoman Empire which he created was an extensive mass of land and sea which sat at the hub of the great trading networks of the time. Moribund and depopulated, Byzantine Constantinople had been remade as the flourishing capital of territories that included the Balkan peninsula as far as the Adriatic in the west, the Danube-Sava line in the north, and most of Anatolia. The Black Sea coast marked a relatively safe frontier beyond which there were at this time no states capable of threatening Ottoman power. Rivals still threatened to east and west, but within the limits of Mehmed’s state a pax ottomanica brought a measure of internal security which was disturber only by localized brigand activity on land and corsairs at sea.” - Caroline Finkel; Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Melike Hatun - requested by Anon