Remzşinas Hanım ( ota, رمزشناس خانم; meaning "Knower of Signs"), also called Remsşinaz Hanım was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the

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Murad ascended the throne on 30 May 1876, after the deposition of his uncle 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 ...

, After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876, due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Remzşinas was Circassian, and came to Istanbul after the Russian invasion of Caucasus. She was chosen to be sent to Çırağan Palace around 1881, where Murad took her as his consort. She was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end. In widowhood, her stipend consisted of 1500 ''kuruş''. However, later, during the reign of Sultan

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, it was reduced to only 500 ''kuruş''. After which her step-daughter, Hatice Sultan, wrote to

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, member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), asking him to raise her stipend at least to 800 ''kuruş''. After Murad's death she initially stayed at Çırağan Palace to keep company with

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, the third consort, who refused to leave Palace, but in 1910 she was sent to

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with other consorts Nevdürr Hanım, Gevherriz Hanım and

Filizten Hanım Filizten Hanım ( ota, فيليزتن خانم; 1861–1862 – 1945; meaning "Tendril bodied" or "big eyes") was the last consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire. Life Filizten Hanım was born in 1861 or 1862. At Istanbul her name ...

. She returned to Istanbul in 1914. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Remzşinas as being the adjunct member of the family decided to stay in Istanbul. She died on after 1934.

In literature

* Remzşinas is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanim, Remzsinas 1864 births Year of death unknown 19th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans

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