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TURKEY

AND TRIBUTARY STATES. (Ottoman Empire.)

Reigning Sultan.

AbduMIamid II., born September 22, 1842 (15 Shaban 1245), the second son of Sultan Abdul Medjid; succeeded to the thi'one on the deposition of his elder brother, Sultan Murad V., August 31, 1876.

Children of the Sultan.

1. Mehemmed-Selim Effendi, born January 11, 1870. II. Zekie Sultana, born Ja,nuary 12, 1871. III. Ndime Sultana, born August 5, 1876. lY. Ahdid-Kadii- Effendi, born February 23, 1878. Y. Ahmed Effendi, born March 14, 1878. YI. JSfaile Sultana, born January 8, 1884. YII. Mehemmed Burhan Eddin Effendi, born December 19, 1885.

Brothers and Sisters of the Sultan.

I. Mohammed Murad EjBfendi, born September 21, 1840; proclaimed Sultan of Turkey on the deposition of his uncle, Sultan Abdul-Azi2, May 30, 1876; declared by the Council of Ministers to be suffering from idiocy, and deposed from the throne, August 31, 1876.

II. DjemiU Sultana, born August 18, 1843; married, June 3, 1858, to Mahmoud-Djelal-Eddin Pasha, son of Ahmet Feti Pasha; widow.

III. Mehemmed- llcshad Eifendi, born November 3, 1844; heir-apparent to the throne.

IV. Senili6 Sultana, born November 21, 1851; married to the late Mahmud Pasha, son of Halil Paslia.

V. Medihe Sultana, born 1857; married (1) 1879, to Nedjib Pasha; widow 1885; (2) April 30, 1886, to Ferid Pasha.

VI. Wahid-Uddin Eflendi, born 1860.

VII. Sideiman Effcndi, born January 12, 1861.

The present sovereign of Turkey is the thirty-fourth, in male descent, of the house of Othman, the founder of the empire, and the twenty-eighth Sultan since the conquest of Constantinople. By the law of succession obeyed in the reigning family, the crown is inherited according to seniority by the male descendants of Othman, sprung from the Imperial Harem. The Harem is considered a permanent State institution. All childi-en born in the Harem, whether offspring of free women or of slaves, are legitimate and of equal lineage. The Sultan is succeeded by his