Background
Her father was an Ubykh notable, Ahmed Bey Vozden and her mother was Nurhan Hanım Kucba, an ethnic Abkhazian.
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Sayan Kadınefendi
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Born in 1829 in Sochi, Şayan was of Circassian origin. When Şayan was seven or eight, her family emigrated from Caucasus to Istanbul. Sayezar Hanım, herself a countrywoman in the palace presented Şayan, Sarra Bakmaz and Nevnihal in the palace.
Şayan grew into a young lady in Topkapı Palace, and when she entered her fourteenth year she was noticed by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
In 1843 Şayan married Abdülmecid at the old Çırağan Place, Istanbul.
She was given the title of Dördüncü Kadınefendi. Şayan also paid a visit to Kupalı palace to meet her countrywomen, who came from Caucasus to Istanbul, and helped them financially.
Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century and Şayan was one of them. 1843 - 25 June 1861: Devletlu İsmetlu Şayan Dördüncü Kadınefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Fourth Imperial Lady Consort Şayan).
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Religion
Islam