ota, صالحہ ناجیہ خانم , house = Ankuap (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage) , father = Arslan Bey Ankuap , mother = , birth_name = Zeliha Hanım Ankuap , birth_date = 1887 , birth_place = Batumi , Georgia , death_date = , death_place = Serencebey Mansion,

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, burial_place = Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divan Yolu street,

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Saliha Naciye Kadın ( ota, صالحہ ناجیہ خانم, "''the devout one''" and "''saved and freed''"; born Zeliha Ankuap; 1887 – 1923) was the last consort of Sultan

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 ...

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

Early life

Of Abkhazian origin, Saliha Naciye Hanım was born in 1887. Born as Zeliha Ankuap, she was the daughter of Aslan Bey Ankuap. In 1901, Kabasakal Mehmed Pasha, presented her for service in the

Yıldız Palace Yıldız Palace ( tr, Yıldız Sarayı, ) is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the sultan and his court in the late 19th ...

, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Saliha Naciye.

Marriage

Three years into service, Abdul Hamid took notice of Saliha Naciye, and they married on 4 November 1904 in the

. She was 17 and he was 62. She was his thirteenth and last consort. She was given the title of "Sixth Ikbal". She was very sweet, gentle and modest, characteristics appreciated by the sultan. A year after the marriage, on 17 May 1905, she gave birth to her first child, a son,

Şehzade Mehmed Abid Şehzade Mehmed Abid ( ota, شهزادہ محمد عابد; 17 September 1905 – 8 December 1973) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Saliha Naciye Hanım. Early years Şehzade Mehmed Abid was born on 17 September 1905 ...

, and three years later on 16 January 1908 to her second child, a daughter, Samiye Sultan, who died on 24 January 1909. After her daughter birth, she was given the honorary rank of "Fifth Kadın", with title Saliha Naciye Kadın. Saliha Naciye was by far the favorite consort of Abdülhamid II, followed by

Müşfika Kadın ota, مشفقه قادین , house = Ağır (by birth) Ottoman (by marriage) , father = Mahmud Ağır Bey , mother = Emine Hanım , birth_name = Ayşe Ağır , birth_date = 1872 , birth_place = Caucasus , death_dat ...

and Pesend Hanım. In the 1909 mutiny, Kabasakal ("twisted beard") was shaved and publicly hanged, and on 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

. Naciye was close to him, and so she and her son Abid accompanied him. But after Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdülhamid returned to Istanbul and settled in the

Beylerbeyi Palace The Beylerbeyi Palace ( tr, Beylerbeyi Sarayı, literally meaning ''the palace of the bey of beys'') is located in the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoma ...

, where he died in 1918. Saliha Naciye refused to abandon Abdülhamid and, together with Müşfika Kadın, demanded to stay with him in Beylerbeyi Palace until his death. Pesend Hanım, on the other hand, was unable to obtain permission and therefore never saw her husband again, suffering greatly from this, so much so that she shaved her head as a sign of mourning at his death.

Last years and death

After Abdul Hamid's death, Saliha Naciye settled in the mansion of

Şehzade Mehmed Selim Şehzade Mehmed Selim ( ota, شہزادہ محمد سلیم; 11 January 1870 – 5 May 1937) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his wife Bedrifelek Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Selim was born on 11 Janua ...

located in Serencebey. She died in 1923, and was buried in the mausoleum of Sultan

Mahmud II Mahmud II ( ota, محمود ثانى, Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî, tr, II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. His reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, ...

, located at Divan Yolu street.

Issue

In literature and popular culture

*Saliha Naciye Hanım is a character in Tim Symonds' historical novel ''Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman'' (2015). *In the 2017 TV series '' Payitaht: Abdülhamid'', Saliha Naciye Hanım is portrayed by Turkish actress Vildan Atasever.

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