Adile Sultan (عادله سلطان), daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and sister of the Sultans Abdulmecid and Abdulaziz, was an Ottoman princess, a renowned female Diwan poet and a philanthropist. She was born as daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1785-1839) and his wife Zernigar Sultan in 1825 in Constantinople (İstanbul today). Adile Sultan lost her mother at a very young age, and was raised by Nevfidan Kadın, the chief woman in the palace. Wikipedia
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