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Achba
The House of Achba ( Abkhazian:Ачба, ka, ანჩაბაძე), is a Georgian and Abkhazian family, and the oldest surviving noble house originating in Abkhazia. History The Anchabadze family is supposed to have its roots in the early medieval ruling dynasty of Abasgia. According to a traditional account, after the break-up of the Kingdom of Georgia in the late 15th century, Abkhazia came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam, forcing several members of the family to flee to the eastern Georgian lands of Kartli and Kakheti. Thus, they formed two principal branches: the Abkhazian line of the princes Anchabadze and the Kartlian Machabeli. However, there is another version, according to which the Machabeli was an offshoot of the Tavkhelidze family, who adopted their dynastic name after the village of on the Great Liakhvi River, where their initial domain was located. Both of these families were later integrated into the Imperial Russian princely nobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyla Achba
Leyla Gülefşan Achba (10 August 1898 – 6 November 1931) was an Abkhazian princess. She was a lady-in-waiting to Nazikeda Kadın, wife of Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She is known for writing memoirs, which give details of the sultan's court life and was the first Ottoman court lady to write memoirs. Life Leyla Achba was born on 10 August 1898 in Achba Mansion, Horhor, Istanbul. She was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Anchabadze, which had emigrated to Istanbul during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). Her father was Prince Mehmed Refik Bey Achba, and her mother was Princess Mahşeref Hanım Emkhaa, daughter of Prince Osman Bey Emukhvari and Princess Hesna Hanım Çaabalurhva. She had three elder siblings, two brothers, Ahmed Bey, and Rifat Kemaleddin Bey, and a sister, Emine Nurbanu Hanım, and a younger sister, Feride Hanım. She was a paternal great-grandniece of Verdicenan Kadın, a wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I. She was also a mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdicenan Kadın
Verdicenan Kadın (; "''Heart's decision''" or "''Heart's jury''"; born Saliha Achba; 18259 December 1889) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Verdicenan Kadın was born in 1825 in Sukhum. Her original name was Saliha Achba. She was a member of the Abkhazian princely family Achba. Her father was Prince Kaytuk Giorgi Bey Achba (1793–1848), and her mother was Princess Yelizaveta Hanım (1795–1843). She had four elder siblings, two brothers, Prince Ahmet Bey Achba, and Prince Islam Musa Bey Achba, and two sisters, Princess Peremrüz Hanım Achba and Princess Embruvaz Hanım Achba, and a younger brother, Prince Mehmed Bey Achba. Kadın was brought to Istanbul as a young child, where her father entrusted her and her sisters to the care of Bezmiâlem Sultan, the mother of Sultan Abdulmejid I. Here her name was changed to Verdicenan in accordance with the custom of the Ottoman court. Marriage Verdicenan married Abdulmejid in 1844. She was gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatma Pesend Hanım
Pesend Hanım (; born Princess Fatma Kadriye Achba; 13 February 1876 – 5 November 1924) was a consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Fatma Pesend Hanım was born on 13 February 1876 in Achba Mansion, Horhor, Istanbul. Born as Fatma Kadriye Hanim Achba, she was a member of Abkhazian princely family Achba. Her father was Prince Ahmed Sami Bey (1839 – 1915), the son of Prince Ahmed Bey and Patıma Hanım Eşba. Her mother was Princess Fatıma Hanım Ismailevna Mamleeva (1844 – 1923), the daughter of Tatar prince Ismail Bey Mamleeva and Zehra Hanım, a Giray princess. She had an elder sister Princess Ayşe Mahizer Hanım (1871 – 1948), and a younger brother Prince Şükrü Bey (1878 – 1940). Her niece was Leyla Achba. She was a painter and piano player by avocation. She also spoke French and Italian, and enjoyed horseback riding, especially with Arabian horses. She had a very extensive knowledge and loved to read books. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihri Müşfik Hanım
Mihri Müşfik Hanım (; born Mihri Rasim Achba; 26 February 1886 – 1954) was an Abkhazian princess and painter who became one of the first and most renowned female painters in Turkey. She was recognized especially for her portraits, including popular figures Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Pope Benedict XV. Early life and education Mihri Müşfik Hanım was born on 26 February 1886 in the Rasim Pasha Mansion, Baklatarlası neighborhood of Kadıköy in Istanbul. She was a member of Abkhazian princely family, Achba. Her father was Prince Dr. Ahmed Rasim Pasha, an anatomy specialist, and a preeminent instructor in the Military School of Medicine. He was also the president of this institution. His refined tastes and interest in music, painting, and in literature played an important role in the artistic formation of his daughter. In addition to his reputation as a physician, he was also famous for his interest in music, and for playing the saz at evening gatherings. Her mother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin Efendi (; ; 11 October 1857 – 1 February 1916) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdülaziz and his first consort Dürrinev Kadın. Early life and education Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin was born on 29 September 1857 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. His father was Sultan Abdulaziz, who was then a prince, and his mother was Dürrünev Kadın, eldest daughter of Prince Mahmud Dziapş-lpa and his wife Princess Halime Çikotua. He had a full sister, Fatma Saliha Sultan, five years younger than him, and a full brother, Şehzade Mehmed Selim, nine years younger than him. He was brought up concealed in the villa of Kadir Bey, molla of Mecca, located in Eyüp, because at the time it was forbidden for the Ottoman princes to have children before ascending the throne. His birth was kept a secret until his father ascended the throne in 1861. Izzeddin's early education took place in the Prince's School, Dolmabahçe Palace. His tutors were Miralay Süleyman B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Hamid II
Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, period of decline with rebellions (particularly in the Balkans), and presided over Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), an unsuccessful war with the Russian Empire (1877–78), the loss of Anglo-Egyptian War, Egypt, Cyprus Convention, Cyprus, Congress of Berlin, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, French conquest of Tunisia, Tunisia, and Convention of Constantinople (1881), Thessaly from Ottoman control (1877–1882), followed by a successful Greco-Turkish War (1897), war against Greece in 1897, though Ottoman gains were tempered by subsequent Western European intervention. Elevated to power in the wake of Young Ottomans, Young Ottoman 1876 Ottoman coup d'état, coups, he promulgated the Constitution of the Ottoman Empire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Liakhvi River
The Great Liakhvi ( ''Didi Liakhvi'' , , ''Styr Lewakhi'') is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the de facto independent region of South Ossetia and flows into the Kura (Mtkvari). It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The cities of and Gori lie along the banks of the Great Liakhvi. The river is mainly fed by the melting snows and glacier runoff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdülaziz
Abdulaziz (; ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was 1876 Ottoman coup d'état, overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861. Abdulaziz's reign began during the Ottoman Empire's resurgence following the Crimean War and two decades of the Tanzimat reforms, though it was still reliant on European capital. The decade after his accession was dominated by the duo of Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Fuad Pasha and Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Aali Pasha, who accelerated reorganization of the Empire. The Vilayet Law was promulgated, Western codes were applied to more aspects of Law of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman law, and the Millet (Ottoman Empire), millets were restructured. The issue of Tanzimat Dualism (politics), dualism continued to plague the empire, however. He was the first Ottoman sultan who traveled to Western Europe in a diplomatic capacity, visiting a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neşerek Kadın
Neşerek Kadın (; "''joy''" or "''wild rose''"; 1848 – 11 June 1876), born Nesrin Zevş-Barakay Hanim, was a consort of Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Of Circassians, Circassian origin, Neşerek Kadın (called also Nesrin Kadın or Nesteren Kadın) was the daughter of Gazi Ismail Bey Zevş-Barakay. She was born in Sochi in 1848. She had two brothers, Hasan Bey (1850 – 1876), and Osman Pasha (1851 – 1892). Her aunt was the wife of Ateş Mehmed Pasha. Her birth name was Nesrin Zevş-Barakay Hanim. Marriage Neşerek married Abdulaziz in 1868 at the Dolmabahçe Palace, and was given the title of "Fourth Kadın". She gave birth to her first child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Şevket, on 5 June 1872. Two years later, on 24 August 1874, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter, Emine Sultan (daughter of Abdülaziz), Emine Sultan. In 1875, she was elevated to the title of "Third Kadın". Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale Asaf
Hale Asaf, originally Hale Salih (1905, Istanbul - 31 May 1938, Paris) was a Turkish painter of Georgians, Georgian, Abkhazians, Abkhazan and Circassians, Circassian ancestry. She was the niece of Turkey's first female artist, Mihri Müşfik Hanım. Unlike many Turkish artists of her time who were inspired by Impressionism and classical art movements, she was an important proponent of Cubism in Turkey, an influence especially obvious in her self-portraits, portraits and still-life paintings. Biography Her father was the President of the Court of Cassation (Turkey), Ottoman Court of Appeals. Due to a serious illness in infancy, she had to undergo liver surgery at the age of five and suffered from complications for the rest of her life. She attended Notre Dame de Sion French High School, a private school for girls in Constantinople, @ Turkish Paintings, where she learned to speak English and French. In 1919, at the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence, she was sent to Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgetown University Press
Georgetown University Press is a university press affiliated with Georgetown University that publishes about forty new books a year. The press's major subject areas include bioethics, international affairs, languages and linguistics, political science, public policy, and religion. It was founded in 1964, and is a member of the Association of University Presses (AAUP) and a founding member of the Association of Jesuit University Presses (AJUP). The press publishes the '' Al-Kitaab'' series, the most widely used set of Arabic language textbook series in the United States. It also publishes textbooks and digital materials for other languages including Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Iraqi Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Portuguese, Tajik, and Uzbek. See also * List of English-language book publishing companies * List of university presses A university press is an academic publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
