Nilüfer Hatun

Nilüfer Hatun (died around 1363 or around 1380) was a Greek-born concubine of Sultan Orhan and the mother of Murad I. She entered Orhan's harem in 1325, converted to Islam and received the name Nilüfer, and in 1326 gave birth to Murad. After 1331 she moved with her son to Iznik.

When Murad succeeded in 1362, she became the Ottoman Empire's first Valide Hatun. She commissioned an imaret, a hammam and a caravanserai, and was buried in Orhan's tomb in Bursa; Murad built the Nilüfer Hatun Imaret at Iznik in 1388.