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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Order of Charity<br><b>نشانِ شفقت</b></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><br><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">Badge and star of the order</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Order_(honour)" class="mw-redirect" title="Order (honour)">Order of Merit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Awarded for</th><td class="infobox-data">Charitable work</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data location"><span class="flagicon nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Presented by</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><br> <span typeof="mw:File"></span><br><a href="List_of_sultans_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Sultan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">No longer awarded</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1878</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">Ribbon of the order</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2">

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<p>The <b>Order of Charity</b> (<a href="Ottoman_Turkish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Turkish language">Ottoman Turkish</a>: <span lang="ota" dir="rtl">نشانِ شفقت</span>), sometimes referred to as the <b>Order of the Chefakat</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dorling_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dorling-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an <a href="Order_(honour)" class="mw-redirect" title="Order (honour)">order</a> of the <a href="Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> founded in 1878 by <a href="List_of_sultans_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire">Sultan</a> <a href="Abdul_Hamid_II" title="Abdul Hamid II">Abdul Hamid II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-news_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>It was bestowed on selected women for distinguished humanitarian or charitable works, or as a token of the Sultan's esteem.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recipients included non-Ottoman citizens, including the English painter <a href="Margaret_Murray_Cookesley" title="Margaret Murray Cookesley">Margaret Murray Cookesley</a> for her portrait of the Sultan's son,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Hariot_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood%2C_Marchioness_of_Dufferin_and_Ava" title="Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava">Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood</a> (1883), wife of the <a href="Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Dufferin_and_Ava" title="Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava">Earl of Dufferin</a> who was British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire,<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

and to American social reformer <a href="Ellen_Martin_Henrotin" title="Ellen Martin Henrotin">Ellen Martin Henrotin</a> (1893).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The badge consists of a five pointed star in gold and crimson enamel, with a central gold medallion bearing the Sultan's cypher, surrounded by a green enamelled band with the words "Humanity, Assistance, Patriotism" in <a href="Ottoman_Turkish" title="Ottoman Turkish">Ottoman Turkish</a>. The star rests upon a circular wreath enamelled green with crimson berries, the whole mounted on another star with radiant points. The decoration is hung from a star and crescent suspension, enamelled red. The order had three classes,<sup id="cite_ref-Dorling_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dorling-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the highest class mounted with diamonds and other precious stones.<sup id="cite_ref-news_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recipients">Recipients</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Princess_Ingeborg_of_Denmark" title="Princess Ingeborg of Denmark">Princess Ingeborg of Denmark</a></li>

<li><a href="Alexandra_of_Denmark" title="Alexandra of Denmark">Alexandra of Denmark</a></li>

<li><a href="Alexandra_Feodorovna_(Alix_of_Hesse)" title="Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)">Alexandra Feodorovna</a></li>

<li><a href="Margaret_Murray_Cookesley" title="Margaret Murray Cookesley">Margaret Murray Cookesley</a></li>

<li><a href="Princess_Elisabeth_Sybille_of_Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach">Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach</a></li>

<li><a href="Helen_Morgenthau_Fox" title="Helen Morgenthau Fox">Helen Morgenthau Fox</a></li>

<li><a href="Hariot_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood%2C_Marchioness_of_Dufferin_and_Ava" title="Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava">Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava</a></li>

<li><a href="Ellen_Martin_Henrotin" title="Ellen Martin Henrotin">Ellen Martin Henrotin</a></li>

<li><a href="Maria_Christina_of_Austria" title="Maria Christina of Austria">Maria Christina of Austria</a></li>

<li><a href="Archduchess_Maria_Theresa_of_Austria_(1862%E2%80%931933)" title="Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862–1933)">Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria</a></li>

<li><a href="Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia" title="Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia">Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia</a></li>

<li><a href="Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands" title="Wilhelmina of the Netherlands">Wilhelmina of the Netherlands</a></li>

<li><a href="Zita_of_Bourbon-Parma" title="Zita of Bourbon-Parma">Zita of Bourbon-Parma</a></li>

<li><a href="Milena_of_Montenegro" class="mw-redirect" title="Milena of Montenegro">Milena of Montenegro</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFCaptain_H._Taprell_Dorling.1956" class="citation book cs1">Captain H. Taprell Dorling. (1956). <i>Ribbons and Medals</i>. London: A.H.Baldwin & Sons. p. 265.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rzROAAAAMAAJ&q=chefakat&pg=PA976">The Semi-centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois, page 976. University of Illinois, 1918</a></span>

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