Behice Hanım

Behice Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: بھیجه خانم‎; born Behiye Maan; 10 October 1882 – 22 October 1969; after the Surname Law of 1934: Behice Maan) was the thirteenth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Behice, the title is Hanım, and there is no family name.
Behice Hanım
BornBehiye Maan
(1882-10-10)10 October 1882
Adapazarı, Sakarya Province, Ottoman Empire
(present day Turkey)
Died22 October 1969(1969-10-22) (aged 87)
Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Yahya Efendi cemetery
Spouse
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(m. 1900; died 1918)​
Issue
  • Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin
  • Şehzade Mehmed Bedreddin
Full name
Turkish: Behice Hanım
Ottoman Turkish: بھیجہ خانم‎
HouseMaan (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherAlbus Maan
MotherNazli Kucba
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Behice Hanım was born on 10 October 1882 in Beynevid, Adapazarı, Sakarya Province.[2] Born as Behiye Maan, she was a member of Abkhazian noble family, Maan. Her father was Albus Bey Maan, the grandson of Kats Bey Maan. Her mother was Nazli Hanım Kucba, an Abkhazian,[3][4] daughter of Hacı Kuç Pasha. She had one brother, Rauf Bey, and four sisters, Atiye Hanım,[5] Tasvire Hanım,[6][7] Ihsan Hanım, and Nimet Hanım.[5] She was the first cousin of Sazkar Hanım, ninth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.[8][9]

Marriage

Behice's father came to know that Abdul Hamid was looking for a bride for his son, Şehzade Burhaneddin, and hence, brought her to the court, and presented her to the Sultan. However, Abdul Hamid was so taken by the beauty of the young girl that he asked her hand in marriage for himself. At first, Behice flatly refused to this proposal. However, at her father's insistence, she agreed. The marriage took place on 10 May 1900 in the Hünkar Kiosk of the Yıldız Palace. Behice was eighteen, while Abdul Hamid was fifty eight.[10] She was given the title of "Fifth Fortunate".[1]

A year after the marriage, on 22 June 1901, she gave birth to twins, Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin and Şehzade Mehmed Badreddin.[11] Badreddin died at the age of two on 13 October 1903.[1][12][13]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[14] She didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul. She settled with her son in Maslak Palace.[15] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[16]

Last years and death

In 1924, the imperial family was sent into exile. Behice went to Naples with her son. Her son later moved to Paris, leaving her here, where he died in 1945. After her son's death, life for her became difficult.[17]

In March 1969, she was allowed to enter Turkey, where she died seven months later, on 22 October 1969 at the age of eighty-seven. She was buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[18][19]

Issue
NameBirthDeathNotes
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin 12 June 1901[1][12][13] December 1944[12][13] married on 5 May 1919 in the Maslak Palace to Ayşe Andelib "Özerakin" Hanım (Adapazarı, 2 August 1902 – Dutluk Sokağı, Beşiktaş, Istanbul 15 July 1980), daughter of Hüseyin Hüsnü Pasha Akintsba,[20] and Fatma Şadiye Ezerakın,[21] and had issue, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Bedreddin, born and died in Paris.[22]
Şehzade Mehemd Bedreddin 22 June 1901[1][12][13] 13 October 1903[1][12][13] born and died in Yıldız Palace, and buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery

Ancestry

See also

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 251.
  2. Ekinci 2017, p. 21.
  3. Açba 2007, p. 151.
  4. Açba 2004, pp. 47-8.
  5. Ekinci 2017, p. 22.
  6. Açba 2007, p. 154.
  7. Açba 2004, p. 46.
  8. Açba 2007, p. 142.
  9. Açba 2004, p. 47.
  10. Açba 2007, pp. 152-3.
  11. Tezcan, Hülya (2006). Osmanlı sarayının çocukları: şehzadeler ve hanım sultanların yaşamları, giysileri. Aygaz. p. 147. ISBN 978-9-759-83722-8.
  12. Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 262-63.
  13. Brookes 2010, p. 287.
  14. Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopaedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  15. Açba 2007, pp. 153-5.
  16. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  17. Açba 2007, p. 155.
  18. Açba 2004, p. 52 n. 4.
  19. Açba 2007, pp. 155-6.
  20. Ekinci 2017, p. 66-7.
  21. Ekinci 2017, p. 105.
  22. Ekinci 2017, pp. 76, 106.
  23. Ekinci 2017, pp. 19-20.

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