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A first-person travel narrative recounts journeys across Anatolian towns and Black Sea ports with close attention to urban layout, monuments, and natural features. It offers detailed descriptions of mosques, baths, hot springs, bridges, markets, and tombs alongside inventories of colleges, convents, fountains, and public offices. The narrator records local crafts, foods, clothing, languages, and pilgrimage practices while noting geographic and climatic conditions and mineral springs. Episodes include visits to saintly shrines, castle ruins, and fortified towns, interwoven with practical route notes, folkloric observations, and occasional natural-history remarks.

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Title: Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II

Author: Evliya Çelebi

Translator: Freiherr von Joseph Hammer-Purgstall

Release date: February 28, 2017 [eBook #54255]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS
IN
EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA,
IN
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,

BY

EVLIYA EFENDI.

TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH
BY
THE RITTER JOSEPH VON HAMMER,
F.M.R.A.S., &c. &c. &c.


VOL. II.


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