How did Bala Hatun, wife of Sultan Osman I, die?
Sultana Rabia Bala Khatun lived about 35 years as a loyal wife alongside her husband, Sultan Osman Ghazi, but she died before him, as she died before the death of her husband Osman Ghazi in 1324, and she was buried with her father in Bilahjik, and her death is considered one of the strange incidents that shocked everyone. Moreover, she died in the city of Sogot, which was one of the cities of the Osman Empire, and the cause of her death was her great grief for her father, who had died before, and she was also incapacitated by the intensity of crying for her father, as well as after three months of great grief for her father, Bala Hatun’s death was announced, to be buried next to her father’s grave, according to the will that she delivered to Sultan Osman.
