Ceylanyar Hanım Explained

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Ceylanyar Hanım
Birth Name:Nafiye Hanim
Birth Place:Circassia
Death Place:Feriye Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial Place:Gülüstü Hanım Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse-Type:Consort of
Issue:Şehzade Mehmed Rüşdi
Full Name:Turkish: Ceylanyar Hanım|italic=no
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: جیلان یار خانم
House:Ottoman (by marriage)
Religion:Sunni Islam

Nafiye Ceylanyar Hanım (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: جیلان یار خانم; "precious" and "gazelle"; - 27 December 1855) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.

She was of Circassian origins and was born in Sochi. Her real name was Nafiye Hanim. She was tall, with long golden hair. Having been presented in the ottoman imperial harem by Adile Sultan,[1] Ceylanyar married Abdulmejid in 1851, that he had fallen in love with her after seeing her dance. Her family received land and income. She was given the title of "Fifth Ikbal". On 31 March 1852, she gave birth to her only child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Rüşdi in the Old Çırağan Palace. The prince died at the age of nine months. The same year, she was elevated to the title of "Fourth Ikbal".

In early 1853, she was elevated to the title of "Third Ikbal", and in 1854, she was elevated to the title of "Second Ikbal". She died of tuberculosis in the Feriye Palace, on 27 December 1855, and was buried in the mausoleum of Gülistü Kadin, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.[1] [2] [3]

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  1. Book: Belleten, Volume 27, Issues 105-106. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. 1963. 262.
  2. Book: Bayrak, M. Orhan. İstanbul'da gömülü meşhur adamlar: 1453-1978. Aksüt Matbaası. 1979. 19.
  3. Book: Kahya, Özge. Sultan Abdülmecid'in kızı Mediha Sultan'ın hayatı (1856-1928). 2012. 4 n. 24.
  4. Book: Hıfzı Topuz. Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman. 2009. 145. Remzi Kitabevi. 978-975-14-1357-4.