Naile Sultan ( ota, نائله سلطان; "''winner''"; 30 September 1856 – 18 January 1882), called also Nadile Sultan, was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan

Abdulmejid I Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the ...

and

Şayeste Hanım ota, شائسته خانم , birth_date = 1838 , birth_place = , death_date = , death_place = Çengelköy Palace, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire , burial_place = Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemet ...

. She was the half-sister of Sultans

Murad V Murad V ( ota, مراد خامس, translit=Murâd-ı ḫâmis; tr, V. Murad; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the ...

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd ( ota, محمد خامس, Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; tr, V. Mehmed or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) reigned as the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan (). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother ...

, and Mehmed VI.

Early life

Naile Sultan was born on 30 September 1856 in the

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( tr, Dolmabahçe Sarayı, ) located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 t ...

. Her father was Sultan

, and her mother was

, an Abkhazian. She had a stillbirth elder brother, Şehzade Abdüllah, and a younger adoptive brother, Mehmed VI. Naile lost her father when she was five.

Marriage

Naile, like her half-sister

Behice Sultan Behice Sultan ( ota, بهيجه سلطان; "''Happy''"; 6 August 1848 – 30 November 1876) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Nesrin Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed V, and Me ...

, was ill with tuberculosis from an early age and grew up very isolated. She was described as graceful, with a long, gaunt face, very delicate features, dark rimmed eyes, a thin neck and a sweet, sad smile. In 1876, her mother arranged her marriage to Kabasakal Çerkes Mehmed Pasha, a relative of her, brother of

Bidar Kadın Bidar Kadın (; kbd, Талъостэн Бидэр; 5 May 1855 – 13 January 1918; meaning "Attentive, enlightened" in Persian language, Persian) was the fourth consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Of Kabardian ...

(consort of Abdülhamid II) and

Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan Imam Shamil ( av, Шейх Шамил, Şeyx Şamil; ar, الشيخ شامل; russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in ...

. He was descrived as a man simple and harsh. The marriage took place on 6 October 1876, during the reign of her brother,

. Although Sultan

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz ( ota, عبد العزيز, ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; tr, Abdülaziz; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the 32nd List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was 187 ...

had ordered her trousseaux, he was completely unable to arrange marriage for her. The couple were given a waterfront palace known as "

Esma Sultan Mansion The Esma Sultan Mansion ( tr, Esma Sultan Yalısı), a historical yalı located on the Bosphorus in the Ortaköy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey and named after its original owner Princess Esma Sultan, is used today as a cultural center after ...

", located near the Örtaköy Mosque, as their residence. The married was unhappy: Naile had been against marriage and found her husband unpleasant. They had no children.

Death

Naile Sultan died on 18 January 1882 at the age of twenty five because tuberculosis and unhappiness, and was buried in the mausoleum of new ladies in New Mosque. Her mother Şayeste Hanım donated a large inscription plate depicting Mecca and Medina to the tomb . After her death Mehmed Pasha married first a foreign woman and later Esma Sultan, daughter of Sultan

and

Gevheri Kadın Gevheri Kadın ( ota, کوهری قادین, "''gem''"; 8 July 1856 – 6 September 1884), born Emine Hanim, was a consort of Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire. Life Gevheri Kadın was born on 8 July 1856. She was Abkhazian, daughter of ...

. The two moved in Naile Sultan's palace in which Mehmed Pasha and Naile previously lived. Her mother outlived her by thirty years, dying in 1912.

Ancestry

References

Sources