Remzşinas Hanım (; meaning "Knower of Signs"), also called Remsşinaz Hanım, was a consort of Sultan

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of the

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Murad ascended the throne on 30 May 1876, after the deposition of his uncle Sultan

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, 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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. Remzşinas was Circassian, and came to Istanbul after the Russian invasion of Caucasus. She was chosen to be sent to Çırağan Palace around 1881, where Murad took her as his consort. She was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end. In widowhood, her stipend consisted of 1500 ''kuruş''. However, later, during the reign of Sultan

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, it was reduced to only 500 ''kuruş''. After which her step-daughter, Hatice Sultan, wrote to

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, member of the

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(CUP), asking him to raise her stipend at least to 800 ''kuruş''. After Murad's death she initially stayed at Çırağan Palace to keep company with

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, the third consort, who refused to leave Palace, but in 1910 she was sent to

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with other consorts

Nevdürr Hanım Nevdürr Hanım (; 1861 – 1927) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire. Life Nevdürr was born to Batumi in 1861, daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey. She was Georgian. Nevdürr married Murad in 1880 when he was already a pri ...

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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 ...

. She returned to Istanbul in 1914. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Remzşinas as being the adjunct member of the family decided to stay in Istanbul. She died on after 1934.

In literature

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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanim, Remzsinas 1864 births Year of death unknown 19th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans Immigrants to the Ottoman Empire

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