Navekmisal Hanım

{{short description|Consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I}}

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| birth_date = {{circa|1827}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1854|08|05|1827|df=yes}}

| death_place = Şemsipaşa Palace, Üsküdar, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)

| burial_place = Imperial ladies Mausoleum, New Mosque, Istanbul

| spouse = {{marriage|Abdulmejid I|1853}}

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{{langx|ota|ناوك مثال خانم}}

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| religion = Sunni Islam

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Navekmisal Hanım ({{langx|ota|ناوك مثال خانم}}; 1827 - 5 August 1854; meaning "Coquettish"{{cite book|author=Ergun Hiçyılmaz|title=Avrat Pazarından Hareme: Mahrem Tarih|year=2011|publisher=Destek Yayınevi|isbn=978-605-4455-65-2|page=39}}), called also Navekvisal Hanim, was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.

She was born in about 1827 as a princess of the Caucasian Biberd family. His father was Prince Rustem Bey Biberd and Princess Fatma Kızılbek. She was raised in Istanbul under the tutelage of her aunt, Princess Keşfiraz Hanım, together with her sister Suzidilara Hanım, who entered the service of Abdülhamid II and died in 1919. She was introduced to Abdülmecid I by his mother Bezmiâlem Sultan.

Navekmisal married Abdulmejid in 1853. She was given the title of "Fourth Ikbal". She remained childless.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|page=215}}{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2007|page=603}} In early 1854, she probably had fallen victim to the epidemic of tuberculosis{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|page=215}} then raging in Istanbul in the nineteenth century. On 24 February, she left the Dolmabahçe Palace because she was ill with tuberculosis. She died on 5 August 1854, at Şemsipaşa Palace located at Üsküdar. She is buried in the mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the New Mosque, Istanbul.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|page=215}}{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2007|page=603}}

In literature

  • Navekmisal is a character in Hıfzı Topuz's historical novel Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman (2009).{{cite book|author=Hıfzı Topuz|title=Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman|year=2009|pages=135|publisher=Remzi Kitabevi|isbn=978-975-14-1357-4}}

See also

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book|first=Necdet |last=Sakaoğlu|title=Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları|year=2007|publisher=Beyoğlu, İstanbul : Oğlak Yayıncılık ve Reklamcılık|isbn=978-9-753-29299-3}}
  • {{cite book|first=Mustafa Çağatay |last=Uluçay|title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları|location=Ankara|publisher= Ötüken|year=2011|isbn=978-9-754-37840-5}}

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Category:1854 deaths

Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis

Category:Tuberculosis deaths in the Ottoman Empire

Category:Consorts of Abdulmejid I

Category:1820s births