Editing Selim II (section)

== Death ==
Selim died after slipping and falling on a marble floor while drunk<ref>{{Cite book |last=Darke |first=Diana |title=The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-500-77753-4 |pages=145 |language=en}}</ref> at the age of fifty on 15 December 1574.<ref name="baki">{{cite book | last=Tezcan | first=B. | title=The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-521-51949-6 | page=97}}</ref> It is said his death was kept as a secret and his body was placed in icebox to prevent it from deteriorating by his wife, [[Nurbanu Sultan]] and the grand vizier [[Sokollu Mehmed Pasha]] until Selim's son and the future sultan Murad III reached the capital from [[Manisa]]. He was buried in his tomb in Selim's turbe in [[Hagia Sophia]], [[Istanbul]].<ref name="Güzel">{{cite book | last1=Güzel | first1=H.C. | last2=Oğuz | first2=C. | last3=Karatay | first3=O. | last4=Ocak | first4=M. | title=The Turks | publisher=Yeni Türkiye | issue=v. 3 | year=2002 | isbn=978-975-6782-58-3 | page=321}}</ref>