Resan Hanım ( ota, رسان خانم, "''softness''" or "''bright''"; 28 March 1860 – 31 March 1910) was a consort of Sultan

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 ...

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Resan Hanım was born on 28 March 1860 in

Artvin Artvin (Laz language, Laz and ; hy, Արտուին, translit=Artuin) is a List of cities in Turkey, city in northeastern Turkey about inland from the Black Sea. It is located on a hill overlooking the Çoruh, Çoruh River near the Deriner Dam ...

in the

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. She was Georgian, daughter of Ömer Bey and Fatma Hanım, and she had two sisters named Şayeste Hanım and Rabia Gülten Hanım. Her real name was Ayşe Hanim. She and sisters were sent to Istanbul as ladies-in-waiting for

Seniha Sultan Seniha Sultan ( ota, سنیحه سلطان; "''Pearl''"; 5 December 1851 – 15 September 1931) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Nalandil Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed ...

, Murad V's half-sister. Resan was chosen by Seniha as a consort for Murad and she was presented to Murad by the Senior Kalfa as a gift on the occasion of his accession to the throne. After his deposition, she followed him into confinement in the

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. She married Murad on 2 November 1877 in the Çırağan Palace when Murad was thirty-seven years old and Resan was seventeen years old, a year after Murad and his family's imprisonment in the palace. On 19 June 1879, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to Fatma Sultan, followed by

Aliye Sultan Aliye Sultan ( ota, عالیه سلطان; "''nobleborn''"; 24 August 1880 – 17 September 1903) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Murad V and Resan Hanım. Early life Aliye Sultan was born on 24 August 1880 in the Çırağan Pal ...

, born on 24 August 1880. Aliye died on 17 September 1903. She was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end. After Murad's death he stayed for a few years at Çırağan Palace to keep company with

Şayan Kadın Şayan Kadın ( ota, شایان قادین; 1853 – 1919) was the third wife of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire. Biography Born in the Caucasus in 1853, Şayan had been formerly a member of the household of scholar Sıddık Molla. She ...

, Murad's third consort, who refused to leave the Palace. During the

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she asked to be allowed to move to Yildiz Palace, but was denied. Instead, on 16 December 1908, she was allowed to move in with her daughter Fatma. She died on 31 March 1910 at the age of fifty because tuberculosis, and was buried in the mausoleum of

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

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