Hatice Alime Hüma Hatun

Hüma Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: هما خاتون), Valide Sultan wife of Murad II and mother of Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan, also known as Fatih Sultan Mehmed (Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror), was born in the Devrekani county of Kastamonu Province in modern day Turkey. Every year, people in Devrekani commemorate her birth as part of the "Celebrations for the Conquest of Istanbul." Little is known of her family background, apart from the fact that an Ottoman inscription (vakfiye) describes her as Hatun binti Abdullah (Daughter of Abdullah); which implied that her father had converted to Islam (Abdullah, meaning Servant of God, was the anonym that was used to describe the male citizens who converted to Islam in the classical Ottoman period.) and thus a native Greek.