Behice Hanım

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Behice, the title is Hanım, and there is no family name.
Behice Hanım
Behice Hanım.jpg
BornBehiye Maan
(1882-10-10)10 October 1882
Adapazarı, Sakarya Province, Ottoman Empire
(present day Turkey)
Died22 October 1969(1969-10-22) (aged 87)
Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Yahya Efendi cemetery
Spouse
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(m. 1900; died 1918)​
Issue
more...		Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin
Names
Turkish: Behice Hanım
Ottoman Turkish: بھیجہ خانم‎
HouseMaan (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherAlbus Maan
MotherNazli Kucba
ReligionSunni Islam

Behice Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: بھیجه خانم‎; born Behiye Maan; 10 October 1882 – 22 October 1969; after the Surname Law of 1934: Behice Maan) was the thirteenth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Early life[]

Behice Hanım was born on 10 October 1882 in Beynevid, Adapazarı, Sakarya Province.[2][3] Born as Behiye Maan, she was a member of Abkhazian noble family, Maan. Her father was Albus Bey Maan, the grandson of Kats Bey Maan. Her mother was Nazli Hanım Kucba, an Abkhazian,[4][5] daughter of Hacı Kuç Pasha. She had one brother, Rauf Bey, and four sisters, Atiye Hanım,[6] Tasvire Hanım,[7] Ihsan Hanım, and Nimet Hanım.[6] She was the first cousin of Sazkar Hanım, ninth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.[5] She was also related to the wife of Halil Kut Pasha.[4]

Marriage[]

Behice's father came to know that Abdul Hamid was looking for a bride for his son, Şehzade Burhaneddin, and hence, in 1899 brought her to the court, and presented her to the Sultan. However, Abdul Hamid was so taken by the beauty of the young girl that he asked her hand in marriage for himself.[8] The marriage took place on 10 May 1900 in the Hünkar Kiosk of the Yıldız Palace. Behice was eighteen, while Abdul Hamid was fifty eight.[9] She was given the title of "Fifth Ikbal".[1]

A year after the marriage, on 22 June 1901, she gave birth to twins, Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin and Şehzade Mehmed Badreddin.[10] Badreddin died at the age of two on 13 October 1903.[1][11][12][13]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[14] She didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul. She settled with her son in Maslak Palace.[15] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[16]

Last years and death[]

In 1924, the imperial family was sent into exile. Behice went to Naples with her son. Her son later moved to Paris, leaving her here, where he died in 1945. After her son's death, life for her became difficult.[17] In March 1969, she was allowed to enter Turkey, where she died seven months later, on 22 October 1969 at the age of eighty-seven. She was buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[17][18]

Issue[]

Name Birth Death Notes
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin 12 June 1901[1][11][12] December 1944[11][12] married once,[19] and had issue, a son[20]
Şehzade Mehemd Bedreddin 22 June 1901[1][11][12] 13 October 1903[1][11][12] born and died in Yıldız Palace, and buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery

Ancestry[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Uluçay 2011, p. 251.
  2. ^ Ekinci 2017, p. 21.
  3. ^ Açba 2004, p. 48.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 679.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Açba 2004, p. 47.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Ekinci 2017, p. 22.
  7. ^ Açba 2004, p. 46.
  8. ^ Açba 2004, p. 48 n. 13.
  9. ^ Açba 2004, p. 49.
  10. ^ Tezcan, Hülya (2006). Osmanlı sarayının çocukları: şehzadeler ve hanım sultanların yaşamları, giysileri. Aygaz. p. 147. ISBN 978-9-759-83722-8.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 262-63.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Brookes 2010, p. 287.
  13. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 679–80.
  14. ^ Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopaedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  15. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 680.
  16. ^ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroatian heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b Açba 2004, p. 52 n. 4.
  18. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 679, 680.
  19. ^ Ekinci 2017, p. 66-7.
  20. ^ Ekinci 2017, p. 76, 106.
  21. ^ Açba 2004, pp. 47-8.
  22. ^ Ekinci 2017, pp. 19-20.

Sources[]

  • Açba, Leyla (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  • Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (March 31, 2017). Sultan Abdülhamid’in Son Zevcesi. Timaş Tarih. ISBN 978-6-050-82503-9.
  • Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (2000). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid. Mona Kitap Yayinlari. ISBN 978-6-050-81202-2.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
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