Emsalinur Kadın

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Emsalinur Kadın
Born2 January 1866
Tbilisi
Died1952(1952-00-00) (aged 85–86)
Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse
(m. 1885; died 1918)
Ottoman Turkish: امثال نور قادین
HouseOttoman (by marriage)FatherÖmer or Mehmed BeyReligionSunni Islam

Emsalinur Kadın (

Ottoman Turkish: امثال نور قادین; "exemplary light"; 2 January 1866 – c. 1952; after the Surname Law of 1934: Emsalinur Kaya) was the seventh consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Early life

Emsalinur Kadın was born in 1866 in

Abdulmejid I. Emsalinur was known for her beauty and grace.[2]

Marriage

Emsalinur married Abdul Hamid in 1885 in the Yıldız Palace,[2] and was given the title of "Fifth Kadın". On 30 November 1886, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to her only child, a daughter, Şadiye Sultan.[5] In 1895, she was elevated to the title of "Fourth Kadın". In 1901, she was elevated to the title of "Third Kadın". She built a mosque in Kırkpınar in 1907 and was gifted a mansion in Nişantaşı, where she lived after her husband's deposition.[3]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[6] Emsalinur didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul.[7] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[8]

Widowhood and death

In 1924, the Imperial family was sent into exile. Emsalinur followed her daughter to Paris. However, after a staying few years there, she returned to Istanbul, and settled in her mansion located in Nişantaşı.[2]

In 1934, in accordance to the 

Surname Law, she took the surname "Kaya".[2] After her mansion was sold by the ministry of finance, Emsalinur settled in her granddaughter's mansion located in Erenköy known as "Galip Paşa Mansion".[2] However, after this mansion was also sold to Sabiha Gökçen, the world's first female fighter-pilot, in 1948, Emaslinur became homeless.[2]

The government had allocated her one hundred liras per month. And with this amount of money it became difficult for her to rent a house. Emsalinur Kadin died homeless in 1952, at the age of approximately eighty-six,[2] and was buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[9] Her daughter outlived her by twenty-five years, dying in 1977.[10]

Issue

Name Birth Death Notes
Şadiye Sultan 30 November 1886[11][12][13] 20 November 1977[11][12][13] married twice, and had issue, one daughter

See also

References

  1. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 248.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Abdülhamid'in 82 yaşında evsiz ve parasız kalan hanımı, devletten bir evde 'bekçilik etme' izni istiyor!". Habertürk. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b Çevrimli, Nilgün. Terms of Defining Women in Foundations from the Founder, Social Status, and Family Relation. p. 269. ...Sultan Abdülhamid Han hazretlerinin dördüncü kadını ve sultân-ı müşârun-ileyhin vâlide-i muhteremeleri devletlü ismetlü Emsalnur Kadınefendi hazretleri ibni′l-merhûm Ömer Efendi...H 1334 (M 1915).
  4. ^ Akyıldız, Ali (2018). Son Dönem Osmanlı Padişahlarının Nikâh Meselesi. p. 701.
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  7. ^ Osmanoğlu 2000, pp. 157–158.
  8. ^ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroatian heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  9. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 682.
  10. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 693.
  11. ^ a b Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 263.
  12. ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 256.
  13. ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 289.

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