Adile Sultan Palace
Adile Sultan, daughter of Mahmud II, was born in Topkapi Palace in 1826. She received a modern education and was recognized as one of the important female figures in the Ottoman period. Adile Sultan, known as the only female poet with a divan, contributed to the development of Kandilli, helped the poor, and made intense efforts, especially for the education of orphan girls.
Sultan Abdülmecit thought of the mansion he bought in 1856 as a summer house for his sister Adile Sultan. However, this wish was fulfilled by his brother Sultan Abdülaziz, who ascended to the throne after Abdulmecit’s death. In 1861, Sultan Abdülaziz demolished the ruined mansion and replaced it with a 19th-century building. He had a new palace built in the 19th-century western style.
Adile Sultan donated this palace to the National Education before her death. Turkey’s first girls’ boarding high school started providing education here in 1916. After a major fire in 1986, th...
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