Saliha Naciye Kadınefendi

Saliha Naciye Kadınefendi
Beşinci Kadın of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure 21 January 1909 – 27 April 1909
İkinci Gözde of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure 4 November 1904 - 21 January 1909
Predecessor Behice Hanımefendi
Born Zeliha Ankuap
c. 1882
Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın, the Ottoman Empire
Died 4 December 1923
Erenköy, Istanbul
Burial near the mausoleum (türbe) of Sultan Mahmud II, located at Divan Yolu street
Spouse Abdul Hamid II
Issue Şehzade Mehmed Abid Efendi
Samiye Sultan
House House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Arslan Bey Ankuap
Mother Canhız Hanım
Religion Islam

Saliha Naciye Kadınefendi (born Zeliha Ankuap; c. 1882 – 4 December 1923) was the thirteenth consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Saliha Naciye Kadınefendi was born as Zeliha Ankuap, in the village of Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın as the daughter of Abkhazian notable, Arslan Bey Ankuap and his wife Canhız Hanım.[1]Her father belonged to the farming community and was the grandson of Kelesh Ahmed Bey Shervashidze, who was the head of state of the Principality of Abkhazia from the 1780s to 1808. She also had two sisters, Asiye Hanım and Pembe Hanım. At a very young age she was taken to the palace for service, by Kabasakal Mehmed Pasha, one of the compatriots of the Yıldız Palace.

According to a legend, Kabasakal Mehmed Pasha, in the palace of Anatolia, was looking for a girl for service and then went to Bartın where he heard about Saliha Naciye and immediately went to her sister Asiye Hanım, to talk about for her service in the Yıldız Palace. When she entered the palace for service, she was renamed as Saliha. However soon, during her service the Sultan Abdul Hamid II took notice of Saliha and they married on 4 November 1904 in the Yıldız Palace. After her marriage Abdul Hamid renamed her Naciye. Unlike her fellow consorts Saliha Naciye succeeded in binding the sultan to her, and became one of the two most favorite wives of Abdul Hamid II (as other being Müşfikâ Kadınefendi). She also accompanied Abdul Hamid into exile in 1909 and returned to Istanbul with him in 1912.

She died on 4 December 1923 in a mansion located at Erenköy and was buried near the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, located at Divan Yolu street.[2]

Issue

Together with Abdul Hamid, Saliha Naciye had two children:

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Succession

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