Nafiye Ceylanyar Hanım (; "''precious''" and "''gazelle''"; - 27 December 1855) was a consort of Sultan

Abdulmecid I ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Maj ...

of the

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Life

She was of Circassian origins and was born in

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Сочи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg, from – ''seaside'') is the largest Resort town, resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi (river), Sochi River, along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus of Souther ...

. Her real name was Nafiye Hanım. She was tall, with long golden hair. Having been presented in the

Ottoman Imperial Harem The Imperial Harem () of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the concubines, wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded portion (serag ...

by Adile Sultan, Ceylanyar married Abdülmecid in 1851, that he had fallen in love with her after seeing her dance. Her family received land and income. She was given the title of "Fifth Ikbal". On 31 March 1852, she gave birth to her only child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Rüşdi in the Old

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. The baby died at the age of nine months. The same year, she was elevated to the title of "Fourth Ikbal". In early 1853, she was elevated to the title of "Third Ikbal", and in 1854, she was elevated to the title of "Second Ikbal". She died of

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in the

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, on 27 December 1855, and was buried in the mausoleum of Gülistü Kadin, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.

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In literature

*Ceylanyar is a character in

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's historical novel ''Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman'' (2009).

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