ota, بیدار قادین
kbd, Талъостэн Бидэр , house = Talhosten (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage) , father = Prince Talhosten Ibrahim

Bey Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

, mother = Princess Şahika İffet Hanım

Lortkipanidze The Lortkipanidze ( ka, ლორთქიფანიძე, also transliterated as Lordkipanidze) is a Georgian noble family from the province of Imereti known from 1412/1442.Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', p. ...

, birth_name = , birth_date = 5 May 1855 , birth_place = Kobuleti , death_date = , death_place = Erenköy Mansion,

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

, burial_place = Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemetery,

, religion =

Sunni Islam Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagre ...

Bidar Kadın (; kbd, Талъостэн Бидэр; 5 May 1855 – 13 January 1918; meaning "Attentive, enlightened" in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

) was the fourth consort of Sultan

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

of the

Early life

Of Kabardian Circassian origin, Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1855 in Kobuleti. She was daughter of the prince Ibrahim Talustan Bey and his wife, Georgian princess Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze and had two brothers named Çerkeş Hüseyin Paşa and Çerkes Mehmed Ziya Pasha, who worked at the Sultan Palace. Her mother belonged to the Georgian noble family,

. She was also related to Prince Hüseyin Bey Inalipa by maternal side.

Marriage

Bidar married the then-Prince Abdul Hamid on 2 September 1875. He was fascinated by her beauty and her bold personality. In late 1875, or early 1876, she became pregnant with the couple's first child. After Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne following the deposition of his elder brother Sultan Murad V, on 31 August 1876, she was given the title of "Fourth Kadın". Bidar who was pregnant at that time, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, five days later on 4 September 1876. The child was named Fatma Naime Sultan, whom Abdul Hamid called "my Accession daughter." In 1877, Bidar and other members of the imperial family settled in the

Yıldız Palace Yıldız Palace ( tr, Yıldız Sarayı, ) is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the sultan and his court in the late 19th ...

, after Abdul Hamid moved there on 7 April 1877. Here she gave birth to her second child, a son, named Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, on 16 January 1878. In 1879, she was elevated to "Third Kadın". Bidar was described as the most beautiful and fascinating of Abdülhamid II's consorts. She was tall and slender, with long brown hair and intense green eyes. Her beauty was famous also in Europe. On 30 September 1889, she met with the German Empress

Augusta Victoria , house = Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , father = Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein , mother = Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg , birth_date = , birth_place = Dolzig Palace ...

in the harem of the

, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor

Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Empir ...

. On this occasion the countess Mathilde von Keller, lady-in-waiting to the empress, described her as "...the sultana had a beautiful face but looked extremely miserable to this day. I can't forget her expression" In 1895, she was elevated to "Second Kadın". In October 1898, she again met Empress Augusta Victoria in the grand salon of the Imperial Lodge of the

, when the latter visited Istanbul for a second time with her husband. On that occasion the empress herself asked to see Bidar and noticed the beauty of Bidar and her white dress, and Bidar's fame in Europe grew. On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

. Her followed him with her brother Mehmed Ziya Pasha. After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the

Beylerbeyi Palace The Beylerbeyi Palace ( tr, Beylerbeyi Sarayı, literally meaning ''the palace of the bey of beys'') is located in the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoma ...

, where he died in 1918. She settled in a mansion in Fenerbahçe and later in Erenköy Palace.

Death

Bidar Kadın died on 13 January 1918 at the age of sixty-three, in Erenköy Palace, of a disease related to intestinal inflammation, ten months after the death of Sultan Abdul Hamid. She was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, Yahya Efendi Cemetery,

. A few months later the Empress

Zita of Bourbon-Parma Zita of Bourbon-Parma (''Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese''; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles I of Austria, Charles, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. As such, sh ...

, visiting Istanbul, asked Sultan

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd ( ota, محمد خامس, Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; tr, V. Mehmed or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) reigned as the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan (). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother ...

to be able to see the famous Bidar, but unfortunately she was already dead.

Issue

In popular culture

* In the 2017 TV series '' Payitaht: Abdülhamid'', Bidar Kadın is portrayed by Turkish actress

Özlem Conker Özlem Conker (born 1 July 1973) is a Turkish actress. Conker was educated at the Training Center for Special Education Care in the Netherlands. She started her acting career in 1996 by playing a supporting role in the ''Bizim Ev'' series. She wa ...

References

Sources

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