Nevdürr Hanım
Consort of Ottoman Sultan Murad V
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Nevdürr Hanım[1] (Ottoman Turkish: نودر خانم, lit. 'the new shine[2]'; 1861 – 1927) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
Batumi, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
(now Batumi, Adjara, Georgia)
| Nevdürr Hanım | |||||
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| Born | c. 1861 Batumi, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (now Batumi, Adjara, Georgia) | ||||
| Died | 1927 (aged 65–66) Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey | ||||
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| House | Ottoman (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
Life
Nevdürr was born to Batumi in 1861, daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey. She was of Georgian ancestory.
Nevdürr married Murad in 1880 when he had already been deposed and was a prisoner in the Çırağan Palace.[3] She remained childless.[1] After reigning for three months, Murad had been deposed on 30 August 1876,[4] due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Nevdürr was initially sent to Çırağan Palace as Kalfa (palace attendant), but Murad liked her and decided to take her as his consort.[3]
Nevdürr was widowed upon Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.[5] After the death of her husband, she was sent to Bursa with the consorts Gevherriz Hanım, Remzşinas Hanım and Filizten Hanım for a few years and her salary was canceled by the Committee of Union and Progress. Afterwards she went to live with her step-daughter Hatice Sultan whose repeated requests for a salary for Nevdürr were denied. When Hatice Sultan was exiled in 1924, Nevdürr fell in utter poverty. She died in 1927 in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul.[6][1] [7] [1][6]
In literature
- Nevdürr is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).[8]