Atiye Sultan

Atiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عطیه سلطان‎; 2 January 1824 – 11 August 1850) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and Pervizifelek Kadın. She was the half-sister of Sultans Abdulmejid I and Abdulaziz.

Atiye Sultan
Born	2 January 1824 Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	11 August 1850 (aged 26) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse	Ahmed Fethi Pasha ​ (m. 1840)​
Issue	Seniye Hanımsultan Feride Hanımsultan
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Mahmud II
Mother	Pervizifelek Kadın
Religion	Sunni Islam

Early life

Atiye Sultan was born on 2 January 1824 in the Topkapı Palace. Her father was Sultan Mahmud II, and her mother was Pervizifelek Kadın.[1][2] She had two full sisters, Hatice Sultan, one year younger than her,[3] and Fatma Sultan, four years younger than her.[4] She was the granddaughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid I and Nakşidil Sultan.[5]

Marriage

At the age of fifteen her father betrothed her to Rodosizade Ahmed Fethi Pasha.[1] The marriage took place during the reign of her elder half-brother Abdulmejid I on 8 August 1840 in Eyüp,[5] when Atiye was sixteen and Ahmed Fethi was thirty nine years old.[6] The couple were given the Arnavutköyü Palace as their residence. After that, she lived in the Kuruçeşme Palace, Esma Sultan Palace and Eyüphan Villa located in Kağıthane, between Eyüp and Defterdar.[7][8]

The couple had two daughters, Seniye Hanımsultan, born on 3 October 1843, and Feride Hanımsultan, born on 30 May 1847. Both of them were born in the Kuruçeşme Palace.[5][7][8]

Death

Atiye Sultan died on 11 August 1850 at the age of twenty six, and was buried in the mausoleum of her father located in Divanyolu, Istanbul.[7]

Issue

Atiye and Ahmed Fethi had two daughters:

• Seniye Hanımsultan (Istanbul, Kuruçeşme Palace, 3 October 1843 – Istanbul, Nişantaşı Palace, 10 December 1910, buried in Mahmud II Mausoleum), married and had issue;
• Feride Hanımsultan (Istanbul, Kuruçeşme Palace, 30 May 1847 – Arnavutköy Palace, 1920), married and had issue;

See also

• List of Ottoman princesses

Ancestry

Ancestors of Atiye Sultan
16. Mehmed IV 8. Ahmed III 17. Gülnuş Sultan 4. Abdul Hamid I 9. Şermi Kadın 2. Mahmud II 5. Nakşidil Sultan 1. Atiye Sultan 3. Pervizifelek Kadın

References

1. Uluçay 2011, p. 195.
2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 557.
3. Uluçay 2011, p. 197.
4. Uluçay 2011, p. 201.
5. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 4.
6. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 558.
7. Uluçay 2011, p. 196.
8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 559.

Sources

• 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. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.