Peyveste Hanım

Peyveste Hanım
پیوسته خانم
Imperial consort of the Ottoman Sultan
Tenure 24 January 1893 – 27 April 1909
Born Rabia Emuhvari
10 May 1873
Pitsunda, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died c. 1943 (aged 69–70)
Paris, France
Burial Bobigny cemetery, Paris
Spouse Abdul Hamid II
Issue Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri
Father Osman Emkhaa
Mother Hesna Çaabalurhva
Religion Sunni Islam

Peyveste Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: پیوسته خانم‎; 10 May 1873 – c. 1943) was the ninth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life

Peyveste Hanım was born on 10 May 1873 in Pitsunda, Abkhazia. Born as Rabia Eymhaa, she was a member of Abkhazian princely family Emuhvari. Her father was Prince Osman Bey Eymhaa, and her mother was Princess Hesna Hanım Çaabalurhva, an Abkhazian.[1] She had an elder brother, Prince Ahmed Pasha, and three elder sisters, Princess Eda Hanım (died 1930), Princess Nurhayat Hanım (died 1939), and Princess Mahşeref Hanım (1871 – 1920).[2]

In 1877, Osman Bey volunteered for service in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). He took his wife and children to Istanbul, and entrusted them to the care of Hesna Hanım's paternal cousin, Davud Bey. He returned to Abkhazia and was killed in the war.[3]

Davud Pasha's wife Meryem Hanım, who had been in service in the palace, decided to present the widowed Hesna Hanım and her daughters to her paternal cousin Nazikeda Kadın, first wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid.[4] Nazikeda won over Hesna, and adopted her daughters.[5]

Marriage

Peyveste met Abdul Hamid in 1890, and married him on 24 January 1893 in the Yıldız Palace.[1] She was given the title of "Üçüncü Ikbal".[6]

On 14 August 1894,[7] a year after the marriage, she gave birth to her only son, Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri. Upon his birth, she was presented with a beautiful apartment. In 1897, Peyveste became pregnant with her second child, however, suffered an abortion.[8] Abdul Hamid later alocated her in one of the Kiosks on the gardens of the Yıldız Palace.[9]

In 1909, she was given the title of "Ikinci Ikbal".[6] On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Salonica.[10] Peveste was closed to Abdul Hamid. She and her son accompanied him for some time, and returned to Istanbul in 1910.[6] She bought a mansion in Şişli, and took along Sazkar Hanım, the mother of Refia Sultan.[11] After Salonica fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid also returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[12]

Last years and death

In 1924, she went into a second exile and lived with her son in Paris. She died in 1943, and was buried in Bobigny cemetery, Bobigny, Paris.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Açba 2007, p. 144.
  2. 1 2 Açba 2007, p. 146.
  3. ↑ Açba 2004, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Açba 2004, p. 23-4.
  5. ↑ Açba 2004, p. 25.
  6. 1 2 3 Uluçay 2011, p. 250.
  7. ↑ Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 125.
  8. ↑ Açba 2004, p. 28.
  9. ↑ Açba 2004, p. 29.
  10. ↑ Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  11. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 145.
  12. ↑ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.

Sources

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  • Açba, Leyla (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.

Further reading

  • Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (2000). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid. Mona Kitap Yayinlari. ISBN 978-6-050-81202-2.
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