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Emine Nemika Sultan (; 9 March 1888 – 6 September 1969) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of
Åžehzade Mehmed Selim Åžehzade Mehmed Selim Efendi (; 11 January 1870 – 5 May 1937) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his consort Bedrifelek Kadın. Early life Åžehzade Mehmed Selim was born on 11 January 1870 in the Dolmab ...
, son of Sultan
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 modernizati ...
.


Early life

Nemika Sultan was born on 9 March 1888 in the
Yıldız Palace Yıldız Palace (, ) is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman Empire, Ottoman pavilions and villas in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the List of sultans of the Ottoman ...
. Her father was
Åžehzade Mehmed Selim Åžehzade Mehmed Selim Efendi (; 11 January 1870 – 5 May 1937) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his consort Bedrifelek Kadın. Early life Åžehzade Mehmed Selim was born on 11 January 1870 in the Dolmab ...
, and her mother was Iryale Hanım, the daughter of Hassan Ali Marshan and Fatma Horecan Aredba. Her mother was the sister of Nazikeda Kadın, first wife of Sultan
Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as ''Şahbaba'' () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman Cal ...
. She was the second child and only daughter of her parents. She had an elder brother Åžehzade Mehmed who died young and a paternal younger half-brother,
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim Efendi (, also Mehmed Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu; 26 June 1906 – 3 August 1935) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Selim and Nilüfer Hanım. He was the grandson of Abdul Hamid II and Bedrifelek Kadın. E ...
. She was the granddaughter of Sultan
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 modernizati ...
and
Bedrifelek Kadın Bedrifelek Kadın (, "''moon of the sky''"; 4 January 1851 – 8 February 1930) was the third consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Bedrifelek Kadın was born on 4 January 1851 in Anapa. She was a member of Circa ...
. In March 1898, she attended the wedding of her aunt Naime Sultan, daughter of
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 modernizati ...
and
Bidar Kadın Bidar Kadın (; "''enlightened''"; 5 May 1855 – 13 January 1918) was a consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Of Kabardian Circassian origin, Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1855 in Kobuleti. She was daughter ...
, and Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha, son of
Gazi Osman Pasha Osman Nuri Pasha (‎; 1832, Tokat, Ottoman Empire – 4 to 5 April 1900, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire), also known as Gazi Osman Pasha (), was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal. Being one of the most respected and decorated Ottoman pa ...
. During the ceremonial occasion, she sat with her aunts
Şadiye Sultan Şadiye Sultan (, "''successful, blessed, destinated to happy''"; 30 November 1886 – 20 November 1977) was an Ottoman princess and memoir writer, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Emsalinur Kadın. Early life and education Şadiye Sult ...
and Hamide AyÅŸe Sultan. Nemika's mother died in 1904, when she was sixteen years old.


Marriage

Nemika Sultan married Ali Kenan Isin Bey on 22 June 1911 in the Yıldız Palace. The couple was given Göztepe Palace as their residence. She gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, Fatma Fethiye Hanımsultan on 13 November 1912. Three years later, on 14 September 1915, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Sultanzade Ibrahim in the Göztepe Palace. Four years later, on 1 March 1920, she gave birth to her third child, a son, Sultanzade Kazim in the Göztepe Palace. Her husband was Turkey's first mining engineer to study abroad. At the exile of imperial family in March 1924, Nemika and her family settled in
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, where she gave birth to her fourth and last child, a daughter Emine Satia ''Hanımsultan'' on 15 January 1927. They later moved to
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. Here her husband, Ali Kenan served as the mayor of Tripoli. She was widowed at Ali Kenan's death in 1962.


Death

In 1952, the exile for princesses was revocated and Nemika returned to Turkey after widowed, and settled in
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district in Istanbul. She died on 6 September 1969 at the age of eighty-one, and was buried in the
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of
Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Efendi (; 16 July 1848 - 25 April 1905) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman prince, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and his consort Verdicenan Kadın. Early life Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin was born on 16 July 1848 in the Çırağa ...
, located in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.


Honours

* Order of the House of Osman * Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled * Order of Charity, 1st Class


Issue


Ancestry


References


Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nemika Sultan 1888 births 1969 deaths Royalty from Istanbul 19th-century Ottoman princesses 20th-century Ottoman princesses