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Dürriye Sultan
Dürriye Sultan
	Dürriye (left) along with her brother Şehzade Mehmed Nazım (centre) and sister Rukiye Sultan (right)
Born	3 August 1905; Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire ; (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	15 July 1922 (aged 16); Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Haydarpasha, Istanbul
Spouse	Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey (m. 1920; div. 1921)
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin
Mother	Ünsiyar Hanım
Religion	Sunni Islam

Dürriye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: دريه سلطان; "shining"; 3 August 1905 – 15 July 1922) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Mehmed V.

Early life

Dürriye Sultan was born on 3 August 1905 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.^[1] Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin and her mother was Ünsiyar Hanım.^[2] She was the second child and daughter of her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had a sister, Rukiye Sultan, one year younger than her, and a brother Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, five years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Sultan Mehmed V and Kamures Kadın.^[3]

In 1915, she began her education with her sister and brother. Their teacher was Safiye Ünüvar, who taught them the Quran.^[4] In 1918, after the death of her grandfather, she moved to her father's villa located at Haydarpasha, where she occupied the first floor with her mother and sister.^[5] After a while her teacher Safiye Ünüvar also came to her apartment to live with her.^[6]

Marriage

Dürriye married Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey, son of Naime Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha. The marriage took place on 26 March 1920 at the Yıldız Palace, and was performed by Şeyhülislam Haydarîzâde İbrahim Efendi. Her dowry was 1001 purses of gold. After the marriage she moved to Naime Sultan's Palace located on the seashore.^[7]

Curiously, a marriage between her father and Mehmed Cahid's mother had been considered in the past.

In the prenuptial agreement she was given the right to divorce her husband. The two divorced on 6 November 1921 with Şeyhülislam Nuri Efendi's assistance. After the two divorced, her husband married her maternal aunt Laverans Hanım, with whom he had one son, Bülent Osman Bey.^[7]

Death

Dürriye Sultan died of tuberculosis^[8] on 15 July 1922, at the age of sixteen, and was buried in Haydarpasha, Istanbul.^[3]^[1] In the same year, the Ayrılık Fountain was repaired in her memory.^[9]

Honours

Order of the House of Osman^[10]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Dürriye Sultan

8. Abdulmejid I

4. Mehmed V

9. Gülcemal Kadın

2. Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin

5. Kamures Kadın

1. Dürriye Sultan

3. Ünsiyar Hanım

7. Firdevs Hanım

References

^ ^a ^b Brookes 2010, p. 280.
^ Brookes 2010, p. 205.
^ ^a ^b Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 32.
^ Brookes 2010, p. 216.
^ Brookes 2010, p. 264.
^ Brookes 2010, p. 265.
^ ^a ^b Bağce, Betül Kübra (2008). II. Abdulhamid kızı Naime Sultan'in Hayati. pp. 55–56.
^ Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. p. 188. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
^ "AYRILIK ÇEŞMESİ İstanbul Kadıköy'de eski Bağdat sefer ve kervan yolunun başlangıcı olan menzil yeri ve çeşmesi". İslam Ansiklopedisi. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Salnâme-i Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmanîyye, 1333-1334 Sene-i Maliye, 68. Sene. Hilal Matbaası. 1918. pp. 74–75.

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.