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The Many Worlds of Evliya Çelebi
The New World
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“I was in a foreign land, so I bowed to necessity”
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wanderlust : Desire to travel
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List of German words recorded by Evliya in Vienna
bread - burot Mother Mary - marya Water- bosır sultan of Istanbul- kosıtin opol wine - vayin king - çasar Candle- lihit Hungarian king of the Germans - lipolda inspiratory engur pen – feder Ink- tinte Paper - papir my wife - may firav God - kot
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The Seyahatname “And their darling boys and lovely girls swim in the river that flows through the city. Warmed with wine and arak, they embrace one another and enjoy themselves in every nook and cranny.”
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The Seyahatname “Indeed, the men and women do not flee from one another. The women sit together with us Ottomans, drinking and chatting, and their husbands do not say a word but rather step outside. And this is not considered shameful. The reason is that throughout Christendom women are in charge, and they have behaved in this disreputable fashion ever since the time of the Virgin Mary.”
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The Seyahatname- Library of St. Stephan
But the number is greater in this Stephan monastery in Vienna since there are numerous illustrated books in the infidel script of every language, including anatomical texts and cosmographies.. Our libraries, on the other hand, have none of these illustrated books, since ‘Pictures are unlawful’…When this humble one had a tour of it, … I was lost in astonishment, and the fragrance of musk and pure ambergis suffused in my brain.
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St. Stephen Cathedral, Vienna
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Automatons may appear to be almost real
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Automatons
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