Atiye Sultan

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]

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]

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]

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;

• List of Ottoman princesses

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