Sazkar Hanım

Sazkar Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: سازکار خانم; born Zekiye Maan; 8 May 1873 – c. 1945) was the tenth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Sazkar, the title is Hanım, and there is no family name.
Sazkar Hanım
BornZekiye Maan
(1873-05-08)8 May 1873
Kayalar, Adapazarı, 
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Diedc. 1945 (aged 71–72)
Beirut, Lebanon
Burial
Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Spouse
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(m. 1890; died 1918)​
IssueRefia Sultan
Names
Turkish: Sazkar Hanım
Ottoman Turkish: سازکار خانم
HouseMaan (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherRecep Bata Maan
MotherRukiye Havva Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Sazkar Hanım was born in 1873 in Kayalar, Adapazarı, Istanbul.[2] Born as Zekiye Maan, she was a member of Abkhazian noble family, Maan. Her father was Recep Bata Bey Maan,[3] the son of Osman Bey Maan, and grandson of Kats Bey Maan. Her mother was Rukiye Havva Hanım Mikanba, an Abkhazian.[4] She was the first cousin of Behice Hanım, twelfth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid.[3]

She was presented in the imperial harem by Çorlulizade Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha's Abkhazian wife, Bidar Hanım.[3]

Marriage

Sazkar Hanım married Abdul Hamid in 1890 in the Yıldız Palace.[5] She was given the title of "Third Ikbal". On 15 June 1891, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to her only child, a daughter, Refia Sultan.[6] On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[7] Sazkar was closed to Abdul Hamid, and accompanied him for some time,[8] and returned to Istanbul in 1910.[1][5] Here she settled with her daughter at her Palace located in Yeniköy.[9] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid also returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[10]

Widowhood and death

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Sazkar went to Beirut, Lebanon with her daughter, where she died in 1945, outliving her daughter by seven years. She was buried in Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus, Syria.[2][11]

Issue
NameBirthDeathNotes
Refia Sultan 15 June 1891[12][13][6] 1938[12][13][6] married once, and had issue, two daughters

See also

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 250.
  2. Açba 2004, p. 47 n. 1.
  3. Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (31 March 2017). Sultan Abdülhamid’in Son Zevcesi. Timaş Tarih. pp. 23, 181. ISBN 978-6-050-82503-9.
  4. "Marshan Family Web Site". Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 683.
  6. Brookes 2010, p. 288.
  7. Hall, Richard C. (9 October 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.
  8. Brookes 2010, p. 281.
  9. Akyıldız, Ali (2018). Son Dönem Osmanlı Padişahlarının Nikâh Meselesi. p. 701.
  10. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroatian heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  11. Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 683–684.
  12. Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 263.
  13. Uluçay 2011, p. 258.

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.
  • Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (2000). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid. Mona Kitap Yayinlari. ISBN 978-6-050-81202-2.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
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