Bidar Kadın

Bidar Kadın
Born 5 May 1855
Kobuleti, Georgia
Died 13 January 1918(1918-01-13) (aged 62)
Erenköy Mansion, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse Abdul Hamid II
Issue Naime Sultan
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir
House Ottoman (by marriage)
Father Ibrahim Talustan
Mother Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze
Religion Sunni Islam

Bidar Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: بیدار قادین‎; 5 May 1855 – 13 January 1918) was the fourth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Early life

Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1855 in Kobuleti, Georgia. She was s member of the Kabardian princely family, Talustan. Her father was Prince Ibrahim Bey Talustan and, her mother was Princess Şahika İffet Hanım Lortkipanidze, a Georgian. She had two younger brothers named Hussein Pasha, and Mehmed Ziya Pasha (1860 – 1919), who were in service to Abdul Hamid.[2]

Marriage

Bidar married Abdul Hamid on 2 September 1875 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.[3] On 4 September 1876, year after the marriage, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Naime Sultan.[4]

After Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne on 31 August 1876,[5] she was given the title of the "Dördüncü Kadın".[6][1] The imperial family settled in Yıldız Palace,[7] where on 16 January 1878, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir.[8] In 1879, she was given the title of "Üçüncü Kadın".[6]

In 1889, she met with the German Empress Augusta Victoria in the harem of Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor Wilhelm II.[9] In 1895,[6] she was given the title of "Ikinci Kadın".[1]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Salonica.[10] Her brother Mehmed Ziya Pasha followed him. She, however, remained in Istanbul, and settled in a mansion in Erenköy.[11] After Salonica fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace.[12]

Death

Bidar died on 13 January 1918 in her mansion in Erenköy, a month before Abdul Hamid's own death. She was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[1][13]

In the 2017 TV series Payitaht: Abdülhamid, Bidar Kadın is portrayed by Turkish actress Özlem Conker.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Uluçay 2011, p. 247.
  2. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 128, 129, 132.
  3. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 128.
  4. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 285.
  5. ↑ Clare, Israel Smith (1885). Illustrated Universal History: Being a Clear and Concise History of All Nations. P. W. Ziegler & Company. p. 549.
  6. 1 2 3 Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 674.
  7. ↑ Oriental Gardens: An Illustrated History. Chronicle Books. 1992. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-811-80132-4.
  8. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 277.
  9. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 165, n. 9.
  10. ↑ Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  11. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 128-9.
  12. ↑ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  13. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 129.
  14. ↑ Payitaht: Abdülhamid (TV Series 2017– ), retrieved 2018-09-30

Sources

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.

Further reading

  • Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (2000). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid. Mona Kitap Yayinlari. ISBN 978-6-050-81202-2.
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