Note 133 — Chapter II · THE OTTOMAN RULING INSTITUTION: AS A SLAVE-FAMILY
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Navagero, 75; Jovius, Historiarum, ii. 371. But Bragadin, 101, calls her a Montenegrin, and Ludovisi, 29, an Albanian; while Busbecq (Life and Letters, i. 178) says that she came from the Crimea. Gomara indicates that her Turkish name was Gul-behar, the Rose of Spring (Merriman, Gomara’s Annals of Charles V, 141). This confusion of knowledge in regard to so important a personage gives evidence of the secrecy which surrounded the sultan’s harem.