Biydâr Kadın Efendi
| Bidar Kadın بیدار قادین |
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| Imperial consort of the Ottoman Sultan | |||||
| Tenure | 31 August 1876 – 27 April 1909 | ||||
| Born | 5 May 1858 Caucasus, Ottoman Empire |
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| Died | 1 January 1918 (aged 59) Erenköy, Asia Minor, Turkey |
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| Burial | Yahya Efendi cemetery | ||||
| Spouse | Abdul Hamid II | ||||
| Issue | Naime Sultan Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir |
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| Father | Ibrahim Talustan | ||||
| Mother | Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
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Turkish: Bidar Kadın English: Bidar Qadin Ottoman Turkish: بيدار قادین |
Bidar Kadın (5 May 1858 – 1 January 1918; Ottoman Turkish: بیدار قادین) was a principal consort of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.
Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1858 in Caucasus, under Ottoman Empire. Born as a member of the Kabardian principality, she was the daughter of Prince Ibrahim Bey Talustan and his wife Princess Şahika İffet Hanım Lortkipanidze, a Georgian. She had green hazel eyes, brown hair and was tall and slender. She had two younger brothers named Brigadier general Hussein Pasha and Mehmed Ziya Pasha, who were in civil service to Abdul Hamid II. At very young age Bidar left her city of birth and arrived at Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. At the age of seventeen Bidar married Abdul Hamid on 2 September 1875 in the Yıldız Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time.
During the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that overthrew her husband's autocratic rule and restored constitutional monarchy, Bidar, followed her husband in exile to Salonica. Her brother, Mehmed Ziya Pasha also accompanied them. Bidar Kadın was a nice woman and in 1889 on the orders of Abdul Hamid she accepted the presence of German Empress Augusta Victoria in the harem of Yıldız Palace. For the second time, Bidar, was visited by Empress Augusta Victoria. Empress Augusta Victoria was very impressed by Bidar and used to speak about her in Europe. In 1918, the Austrian Empress Zita was asked by Bidar to visit Istanbul
After the deposition of Abdul Hamid II she settled in a mansion located in Erenköy, where she lived until her death. She died on 1 January 1918 in and was buried in the Mausoleum of Şehzade Kemaleddin Efendi in Yahya Efendi Cemetery.
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