Emine Nazikeda

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Emine Nazikeda (born October 9, 1866 in Sukhumi , † April 4, 1941 in Cairo ) was the main wife of the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire .

She was born in Tzebelda as the daughter of Prince Hassan Marschania von Tzebelda and Princess Fatma Choredjan Aredba von Adler . Shortly before the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877 , Nazikeda was referred by her family to the Turkish court in Istanbul , where she met the then Prince Mehmed Vahdettin and married on June 8, 1885.

After Mehmed Vahdettin's accession to the throne as Sultan Mehmed VI. In 1918, Emine Nazikeda, the first of four sultan's wives, was his main wife.

During the Turkish War of Liberation , from 1919 to 1923, she supported various charitable institutions and had schools, hospitals, mosques and poor houses restored. After the sultan's exile on November 17, 1922, forced by revolutionaries and the Allies , she was interned by the newly founded Turkish parliament in Ankara together with other members of the sultan's family in the Palais of Ortaköy on the Bosporus . She was held there for two years until she too was exiled on March 10, 1924.

Emine Nazikeda lived in San Remo , Italy until her husband's death in 1926 , then in France and from 1929 in Cairo, where she died completely impoverished in 1941. She was buried in the Abbasiye Cemetery in Cairo.

Her niece was Kezziban Schahinde Marschania von Tzebelda (1895-1924), a lady in waiting at the court of Sultan Mehmed VI.

literature

  • Açba-Ançabadze, Leyla, Princess: Harem Hatıraları , Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul 2010.
  • Afife Rezzemaza: Saray'dan Sürgüne , Istanbul 2013
  • Aredba, Rumeysa, Princess: Sultan Vahdeddin'in San Remo Günleri , Istanbul 2009
  • Bardakçı, Murat: Şahbaba . Pan Yayıncılık, Istanbul 1998.
  • Mislimelek, Princess: Saray'dan Sürgüne Bir Osmanlı Prensesi , Istanbul 2012 (memoirs of the niece of Emine Nazikeda and daughter-in-law of Sultan Abdulhamit II.)
  • Öztuna, Yılmaz: İslam Devletleri . Istanbul 1989 ( Devletler ve Hanedanlar , Volume 2).
  • Uluçay, Çağatay: Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları , Ankara 1992
  • Ünüvar, Safiye: Saray Hatıraları , Istanbul 1965

Individual evidence

Commons : Emine Nazikeda  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. ↑ also Chasan Marschania von Tzebelda, Turkish name: Marşania Abdülkadir Hasan Bey ; Russian name: Князь Абдулкадир-бек Марщаниа , lived from 1862 to 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Nazikeda, Emine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last empress of the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Sukhumi
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1941
Place of death Cairo