Real Story Of Princess Saljan

The character of Saljan has been adapted as 'Selcan Hatun' in the Turkish TV series Diriliş: Ertuğrul and Kuruluş: Osman She is portrayed as the wife of Ertgirl Ghazi's older brother Gandgadu Bay In this context, many viewers want to know about the historical status of this character,

Selcan Hatun History In English

who was Saljan Khatun and what is her real story. Although the Saljan woman in Diriliş Ertuğrul is introduced as the wife of Ertuğrul Ghazi's brother Gandgadu Bay, the Saljan woman has no historical role in the Ottoman movement. There is also some Ottoman tradition about Gandagdu Bay,

Who Was Seljan Hatun

which tells the same story of how the Jeddah Majid of the Ottomans, escaping the Genghis Khan's forces, reached Anatolia from Khwarizm. And after the death of his father Salman Shah,

Gandgadu and Sangartakan separated from Ertuğrul Ghazi and started their return journey. Apart from this, there are no authentic traditions about Gandgadu, while his wife or anyone's children are not mentioned in the historical references.

So the question is who was the Saljan woman and what is the significance of her being included in Diriliş Ertuğrul? Princess Saljan (Azerbaijani: Şahzadə Selcan, Turkish: Prensesi Selcan) is a character in the Book of Dede Korkut and other Turkic mythology and the most famous story in turks dede korkut is a book which tells the story of bravery of turks theres an intresting story about selcan khatun im dede korkat It is said that Seljan was the daughter of the king of Trebizond.

Seljan Hatun History In English

As well as being a princess, she was an excellent horseman and a brave warrior due to which the story of her bravery was very famous when the fame of selchan khatun reached to "Kan Turali Son of Kanli Koja , who himself was a brave soldier.

Kan Turali then finds a Best girl who he thinks meets his standards Saljan Khatoon, although her father was the infidel Sult anof Trebizond. Kan Turali rides off to the Byzantine castle where he has to face all sorts of challenges including having to kill a lion, a bull, and a savage black camel to win the hand of the king's daughter Princess Saljan after which he agreed to marry her daughter with kan turali an Turali heads for the land of the Oghuz with his betrothed.

History Of Saljan Khaton

After regretting to give his daughter to Kan Turali, the king of Trebizond sends an army to kill the couple Caught off guard, Kan Turali is nearly about to die in the fight and Princess Saljan saves him and take his to safe place Saljan fights off her father's soldiers and saves Turali's life This leaves Kan Turali furious as he has been saved by a woman

He threatens to kill her, whereupon she promises not to boast about saving him Returning to the Oghuz lands, away from the infidels, they hold a grand wedding feast where Dede Korkut sings the sixth legend friends this is a story of selchan khatun which is told in dede korkat , the famous book of oghaz turks.

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