Hamida Javanshir

Hamida Ahmad bey qizi Javanshir (Azerbaijani: Həmidə Cavanşir; 19 January 1873 – 6 February 1955) was an Azerbaijani activist and one of the first enlightened women of Azerbaijan,[peacock prose] wife of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, daughter of historian Ahmad Bey Javanshir, philanthropist, translator, member of Azerbaijan Writers' Union.

[citation needed] In 1889, Hamida Javanshir married a Barda-native, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim bey Davatdarov.

In accordance with his will, she took the manuscript of his historical work On the Political Affairs of the Karabakh khanate in 1747–1805 to Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia) in order to get it printed at the Geyrat publishing house.

[4][5] During the Karabakh famine of 1907, Javanshir distributed flour and millet to starving villagers and also acted as a mediator between local Armenians and Azeris after two years of reciprocal massacres.

In 1910, Javanshir, together with female members of the city's Azeri nobility, founded the Muslim Women's Caucasian Benevolent Society.

Hamida Javanshir's daughter Mina Davatdarova was a professional teacher who volunteered at the Kahrizli school until her death in 1923