Nevdürr Hanım (; 1861 – 1927) was a consort of Sultan

Murad V Murad V (; ; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His uncle Abdulaziz ...

of the

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Life

Nevdürr was born to

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in 1861, daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey. She was Georgian. Nevdürr married Murad in 1880 when he was already a prisoner in the Çırağan Palace. She remained childless. After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876, due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the

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. Nevdürr was initially sent to Çırağan Palace as

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(servant), but Murad liked her and decided to take her as his new consort. Nevdürr was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end. After the death of her husband, she was sent to Bursa with the consorts

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and

Filizten Hanım Filizten Hanım (; 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 according to the custom of the Ott ...

for a few years and her salary was canceled by the

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. Afterwards she went to live with her step-daughter Hatice Sultan who requested a salary for Nevdürr many times, but it was never accorded. When Hatice Sultan was exiled in 1924, Nevdürr fell in total poverty. She died in 1927 in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul.

In literature

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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanim, Nevdurr 1861 births Year of death unknown People from Batumi 19th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire

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