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unusual facts about Efendi



Azis Efendi Gjirokastra

Azis Efendi Gjirokastra was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

Bîmen Şen

He studied with some of the most influential musical figures of the day, including Hacı Ârif Bey, Tanburî Cemil Bey, Neyzen Aziz Dede, Şevki Dede, Rahmi Bey, Hanende Nedim Bey, and Hacı Kirami Efendi.

Damat Ferid Pasha

Damat Ferid Pasha (1853 – 6 October 1923) (full name Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha Efendi) was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier during two periods under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin, the first time between 4 March 1919 and 2 October 1919 and the second time between 5 April 1920 and 21 October 1920.

Emine Nazikeda

Emine Nazikeda (Emine Nazikedâ Marjim-Abaza Kadın Efendi; 9 October 1866 in Tzebelda, Abkhazia – 4 April 1941 in Cairo, Egypt), principal consort of sultan Mehmet VI, the last Ottoman Sultan.

Gusripen Efendi

Gusripen Efendi (born on August 14, 1986 in Muara Mahat, Kampar Regency) is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for PSPS Pekanbaru in the Indonesia Super League.

Levinus Warner

Warner acquired his manuscripts and books through the lively antiquarian booktrade in Istanbul, receiving help and advice from Arabs originally from Aleppo such as Muhammad al-‘Urdi al-Halabi (c. 1602-1660), whose faltering career probably forced him to offer his services to Warner, and the Aleppo-born Sâlih Efendi, known as Ibn Sallum, a physician-in-ordinary to Sultan Mehmed IV who died in 1669.

Mehmed V

He married firstly at Constantinople, Ortaköy Palace, on 30 September 1872 to Azerbaijani HH Kam-res Kadın Efendi (Ganja, Caucus, 5 March 1855 – Kuruçesme, Istanbul, 30 April 1921), and had one child.

Muhammed Hamdi Yazır

His father, Hoca Numan Efendi, who is also a scholar of Islam, was from the Yazır village of Gölhisar district of Burdur province, then in the Ottoman Empire, and now in Turkey.

Nicholas Sutton

Osmanoğlu is the daughter of Şehzade Osman Selaheddin Osmanoğlu Efendi, Imperial Prince of the Ottoman Empire (born Alexandria, 7 July 1940) and Athena Joy Christoforides Hanımefendi, (born London, 9 March 1944).

Norman Itzkowitz

"Kimsiniz Bey Efendi, or a Look at Tanzimat through Namier-colored Glasses", Near East Round Table, ed.

Orhan Murad Osmanoğlu

He is the great-great-great-grand-son of H.I.M. Sultan Murad V, 33rd Sovereign of the House of Osman through his grandfather H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ali Vasıb Efendi, 41st Head of the Imperial House of Osman, and also the great-great-grand-son of H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad Han Gazi, 35th Sovereign of the House of Osman, through his grandmother H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan.

Osman Fuad

While in exile, Osman Fuad Efendi lived in many places including Geneva, Rome, Cairo, Paris, Nice and Cannes.

Ottoman ship Mahmudiye

She was constructed by the naval architect Mehmet Kalfa and the naval engineer Mehmet Efendi on the order of Mahmud II (reigned between 1808–1839) at Tersane-i Amire, the Imperial Shipyard, on the Golden Horn in Constantinople.


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