Aliye Sultan

Aliye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عالیه سلطان‎; 24 August 1880 – 19 September 1903) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Murad V and Resan Hanım.

Aliye Sultan
Born	24 August 1880 Çırağan Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	19 September 1903 (aged 23) Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Mehmed Ali Pasha Mausoleum, Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Murad V
Mother	Resan Hanım
Religion	Sunni Islam

Early life

Aliye Sultan was born on 24 August 1880 in the Çırağan Palace, during her family's confinement in the palace after the disposal of her father. Her father was Sultan Murad V, and her mother was Resan Hanım,[1][2][3] the daughter of Ömer Bey and Fatma Hanım.[4] She was the fifth child, and fourth daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She had a sister, Fatma Sultan, one year elder than her.[5][3] She was the granddaughter of Abdulmejid I and Şevkefza Kadın.[6]

Illness and death

In 1903, Aliye Sultan had come down with a slight cold, but after the cold passed she could not recover her health. Slowly she began to weaken, even though no trace of her illness remained. The doctors found that her lungs were a bit weak and they felt she needed a change of air. And so her father sent her up to Yıldız Palace.[7][8]

Aliye Sultan didn't recovered from her illness,[7] and died unmarried on 19 September 1903 at the age of twenty three.[1] She was buried in the mausoleum of Kapudan Pasha Mehmed Ali Pasha located in Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul.[2][9] Her mother outlived her by seven years, dying in 1910.[1]

In popular culture

• In the 2017 TV series Payitaht: Abdülhamid, Aliye Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Gökşin Saraç.[10]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Aliye Sultan
16. Abdul Hamid I 8. Mahmud II 17. Nakşidil Sultan 4. Abdulmejid I 9. Bezmiâlem Sultan 2. Murad V 10. Mehmed Zauram 5. Şevkefza Kadın 11. Cemile Hanım 1. Aliye Sultan 6. Ömer Bey 3. Resan Hanım 7. Fatma Hanım

See also

• List of Ottoman princesses

References

1. Brookes 2010, p. 278.
2. Uluçay 2011, p. 243.
3. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 665.
4. Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. p. 106. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
5. Brookes 2010, p. 100.
6. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 21.
7. Brookes 2010, p. 104.
8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 665-6.
9. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 666.
10. Payitaht Abdülhamid dizisi Aliye Sultan kimdir? Gökşin Saraç rol aldığı yapımlar ve biyografisi, 2020-10-30, retrieved 2020-11-05

Sources

• Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.