Nazime Sultan

Nazime Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: ناظمه سلطان‎; 25 February 1866 – c. 1947) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz and Hayranidil Kadın.

Nazime Sultan was born on 25 February 1866 in at the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulaziz, and her mother was Hayranidil Kadın. She was the third daughter of her father and the first child of her mother. She was the elder full sister of the future Caliph Abdulmejid II. She was the granddaughter of Mahmud II and Pertevniyal Sultan.

Her father, Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew Murad V became the Sultan. He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day. Her mother, and other women of Abdulaziz's entourage didn't wanted to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were send out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them. On 4 June 1876, Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances.

Nazime Sultan, a ten year old girl, continued to live in the Feriye Palace with her mother and eight year old brother.

In 1889 Sultan Abdul Hamid II arranged her trousseaux and marriage together with her two sisters, princesses Saliha Sultan and Emine Sultan. She married Ali Halid Pasha, the son of Ibrahim Derviş Pasha on 20 April 1889 in the Yıldız Palace. She did not bear any children.

The couple were given a palace located at Kuruçeşme, known as Nazime Sultan Palace, as their residence. Here she had performers of religious music.

Exile

Following the imperial family was sent to exile in 1924, Nazime and her husband settled in Jounieh, Lebanon. Here the two lived in a large mansion surrounded by garden.

When Dürrüşehvar Sultan married Prince Azam Jah, the eldest son and heir of the last Nizam of Hyderabad State, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII in 1932, Nazime Sultan gave her a diamond tiara. To Neslişah Sultan, she offered a beautiful bracelet embossed with three diamonds, when she married Prince Mohamed Abdel Moneim, son of Egypt's last khedive Abbas Hilmi II in 1940.

According to Neslişah Sultan, she was tiny, rather ugly, with large lips like her father's, but quite impressive.

Nazime died in 1947 in Jounieh, Lebanon the last surviving child of Abdulaziz, and was buried in Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus, Syria. Her husband outlived by one year, and died in 1948 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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