Aliye Sultan ( ota, عالیه سلطان; "''nobleborn''"; 24 August 1880 – 17 September 1903) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter 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 ...

and

Resan Hanım Resan Hanım ( ota, رسان خانم, "''softness''" or "''bright''"; 28 March 1860 – 31 March 1910) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire. Biography Resan Hanım was born on 28 March 1860 in Artvin in the Caucasus. She was Ge ...

Early life

Aliye Sultan was born on 24 August 1880 in the

Çırağan Palace Çırağan Palace ( tr, Çırağan Sarayı), a former Ottoman palace, is now a five-star hotel in the Kempinski Hotels chain. It is located on the European shore of the Bosporus, between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sultan's ...

, during her family's confinement in the palace after the disposal of her father. Her father was

, son of

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

Şevkefza Kadın ota, شوق افزا قادین , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = , death_date = , death_place = Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire , burial_place = New Mosque, Istanbul , spouse = , issue ...

. Her mother was

She was the seventh child, and fourth daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She had a sister, Fatma Sultan, one year elder than her. She take her name 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 ...

, her father's sister died as child.

Illness and death

In 1903, Aliye Sultan had come down with a slight cold, but after the cold passed she could not recover her health. Slowly she began to weaken, even though no trace of her illness remained. The doctors found that her lungs were a bit weak and they felt she needed a change of air. And so her father sent her up to Yıldız Palace, although he was upset, because he was very close to all his children and did not want Aliye to leave too, as her half-sisters Hatice Sultan and

Fehime Sultan Fehime Sultan ( ota, فہیمه سلطان, "''intelligent''"; 2 July 1875 – 15 September 1929) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Murad V and his fourth consort Meyliservet Kadın. Early life Fehime Sultan was born on 2 July 187 ...

had already left the Çırağan Palace in 1989 to get married and could not return to visit him because Abdülhamid II forbade it. Aliye Sultan didn't recovered from her illness, and died unmarried on 17 September 1903 at the age of twenty three. Abdülhamid II did not allow her parents or sister to see her before or after her death. She was buried in the mausoleum of Kapudan Pasha Mehmed Ali Pasha located in

Eyüp Cemetery The Eyüp Cemetery ( tr, Eyüp Mezarlığı), aka Eyüp Sultan Cemetery, is a historic burial ground located in the Eyüp district, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the General Directorate of Foundations. One of th ...

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. Her mother outlived her by seven years, dying in 1910. Her death, together with the scandal involving her daughter Hatice Sultan the following year, permanently undermined the health of Murad, who died shortly after in mid-1904.

In popular culture and literature

*In the 2017 TV series '' Payitaht: Abdülhamid'', Aliye Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Gökşin Saraç. * Aliye is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).

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