Order of the Medjidie
Order of the Medjidie | |
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Ottoman Sultan | |
Eligibility | Civilians and military |
Status | No longer awarded |
Established | 1851 |
First awarded | 1851 |
Last awarded | 1917 |
Order of the Medjidie (
History
Instituted in 1851, the Order was awarded in five classes, with the First Class being the highest. The Order was issued in considerable numbers by Sultan Abdülmecid as a reward for distinguished service to members of the
The Order was often conferred on non-Turkish nationals.
Design of the Order
On the obverse of the star is Sultan Abdülmecid's royal cipher surrounded by an inscription on a gold-bordered circle of red enamel; all on a star of seven triple quills with small crescents and five-pointed stars between them, suspended from a red enameled crescent and star suspender with green enameled edges.
Rough translation of the front: To the left: (you have) crossed. To the right: (you are proven to be) correct. At the top: (you have provided) protection. At the bottom: Year 1268. In the centre: In the name of the God the forgiver, the merciful.
The order has 5 classes. First, second, third and fourth classes are gold. Fifth (lower) class is silver.
Owners of the order:
- First Class Order (Gold) - 50 people (Given by Sultan)
- Second Class Order (Gold) - 150 people (Given by Sultan)
- Third Class Order (Gold) - 800 people
- Fourth Class Order (Gold) - 3,000 people
- Fifth Class Order (Silver) - 6,000 people
Some notable recipients
- Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian Islamic scholar and political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion.
- Shemaiah Angel
- Abraham Ashkenazi, chief rabbi of Palestine
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ottoman Army officer
- Lucien Baudens, French military surgeon
- Edward Wilmot Blyden, Pan Africanist and Liberian Statesman
- Eugène Chauffeur, French Army officer, from Valence (Drôme), Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, on 6 May 1856. Sous-Lieutenant in the 10th "Bataillon de chasseurs à pied" who sustained a severe wound to the head during the Siege of Sevastopol (Crimea).
- Gallipoli Campaign, ironically in action against Ottoman forces.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author
- Richard England, British soldier
- Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, French soldier
- Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer
- Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Venezuelan soldier, adventurer and writer.
- George Walter Grabham, British geologist
- George Alfred Henty, English Commissariat Officer and author
- Theodor Herzl, journalist and Zionist leader
- Auguste Lumière, French industrialist and biologist
- Léon-Eugène Méhédin, French architect and photographer
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Army officer
- Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet, British Army Officer and Victoria Cross recipient
- Napoleon III, Emperor of The French
- Major-General Charles George Gordon, Gordon of Khartoum
- Rear-Admiral Maurice Horatio Nelson, son of Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson[citation needed]
- Lord Blyth James Blyth, 1st Baron Blyth, British businessman and politician
- General Sir William Parke, British soldier
- Lord George Paulet, British naval officer
- Pedro II of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil
- Ludomił Rayski, Polish pilot
- Cecil Spring Rice, British diplomat
- Haim Palachi, chief rabbi of Izmir
- Jules Ernest Renoux, French painter
- Pierre-Auguste Sarrus, French musician
- Emanuel Stross, Wholesaler[4]
- Charles Carroll Tevis, American soldier of fortune and Anatolian Cavalry leader
- Alfred Tippinge, British Army officer of the Grenadier Guards, and Legion of Honour recipient
- Maréchal Vaillant
- Carol Davila
- Živojin Mišić, Serbian field marshal and Chef of General Staff
- Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist[5]
- Yosef Navon, Jerusalem businessman and the man principally responsible for the construction of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway.
- Field Marshal Sir Frederick Paul Haines GCB GCSI CIE
- Charles Pomeroy Stone, career U.S. Army officer, post Civil War soldier of fortune in Ottoman service.
- Dimitrije Cincar-Marković, Serbian Prime Minister and general
- Grocholski Tadeusz
- Perestu Kadın, Valide Sultan of Ottoman Empire
- Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess Consort of Brunswick
- Oswald Longstaff Prowde, English civil engineer on Aswan Low Dam
References
Citations
- ^ Bir Onurlandırma Aracı olarak Osmanlı Nişan ve Madalyaları Archived 2012-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi. (in Turkish)
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 69.
- ^ The Americana, Vol.15, Ed. Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, (1912);[1]
- ^ "Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon". ÖBL 1815-1950, Bd. 13 (Lfg. 62, 2010), S. 424f. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- ^ "II. Abdülhamid'in Fransız kimyagere yaptığı yardım ortaya çıktı". CNN Türk. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
Bibliography
- The Americana, Vol.15, Ed. Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, 1912.
- About Tadeusz Grocholski (in Polish)
- ERMAN, M.Demir, (2023) Osmanlı-Türk Madalya ve Nişanları 1801-1923 The Ottoman-Turkish Medals and Orders- ISBN 978-605-87186-0-9