Nevdür Hanımefendi

Nevdür Hanımefendi
Born Şadiye Nakaşvili
c. 1861
Batumi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died c. 1927
Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial Istanbul
Spouse Murad V
Full name
Nevdür Hanımefendi
House House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Rüstem Bey Nakaşvili
Mother Fevziye Hanım
Religion Islam

Nevdür Hanımefendi (c. 1861 - c. 1927, birth name Şadiye Nakaşvili, other names Nevdürr, Nev-Dürr ,Noder) was the wife of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Biography

Nevdür Hanımefendi was born in 1861 in Batumi, Georgia to a Georgian noble family. Born as Şadiye Nakaşvili, she was the daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey and his wife Fevziye Hanım.[2][3] In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), her family emigrated from the Caucasus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. She was renamed Nevdür and was given a thoroughly Turkish and Muslim education in the harem department of Çırağan Palace. Receiving her education in the palace, Nevdür also went unto court service, became lady-in-waiting to Valide Sultan Şevkefza Sultan.

However soon, the Murad V took notice of Nevdür, and they married in 1880 in the Çırağan Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time. Nevdür spent twenty seven years confined in the Çırağan Palace along with her husband, Murad V, and the other members Murad's entourage.[4]

After Murad's death in 1904 she moved to Bursa, where she was living in the palace of her stepdaughter Fatma Sultan.[3] After the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, Fatma Sultan went into exile in Nice, France.[3] As but an adjunct member of the Imperial family, Nevdür was not exiled, and so remained in Turkey. Nevdür returned to Istanbul and settled in Beşiktaş, where she died in 1927.

References

  1. Yavuz Bahadıroğlu (2009). Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications). 15th Ed. ISBN 978-9-752-69299-2.
  2. Günay Günaydın (2006). Haremin son gülleri. Mevsimsiz Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-944-98703-5.
  3. 1 2 3 Harun Açba (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  4. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
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