Turkey – Coloring

Whirling dervishes

The great Turkish poet and mystic Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi was born in September 1207 r. in the city of Balkh (in northern Afghanistan). The nickname "Mevlana” his disciples gave him, and it means more or less “our great one …

The Five Pillars of Islam

The Muslim ritual has five responsibilities, called pillars of religion, which are recognized by all believers, regardless of affiliation to sects and fractions.

1. Confession of faith, or shahadah (arab. certificate), it is a confirmation of strict monotheism and prophetic mission …

Music in Turkey

Music

Turkey has a long musical tradition, and therefore many kinds of it – starting with military music, and ending with pop. Today, you can listen to a Janissary band at the Military Museum in Istanbul, whose music, won on timpani, she shut up …

Nasreddin Hocy's fairy tales

Nasreddin Hoca is that for Turks, who is Julian Tuwim for us, that's just that, that he lived a long time ago, in the thirteenth century. He was a comprehensively educated dervish. He is considered a folk philosopher in Turkey, and his humorous anecdotes …

Turkish literature

Literature

Turkish literature was influenced by Iranian influence, but its origins go back to time, before the Seljuks took Anatolia, that is, the period, when they were in Central Asia. Iranian influences meant the use of Persian and Arabic. Court literature of the Seljuk era had its center …

Islam and art

Turkish culture and art are closely related to Islam, adopted by the Turkmen tribes from the beginning of the 10th century. It was then that they gradually began to arrive in Anatolia, trying to reach its western borders. Muslim doctrine pervaded all areas …

Byzantium

Byzantine art was formed from the Greco-Roman tradition and its combination with oriental elements. It is considered the culmination point of the development of early Christian art, a was born after Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 r. The greatest artistic activity …

Ancient Greeks and their heirs – Romans

Most of the ancient cities, visited by tourists in Turkey, the Greeks raised up, who are undoubtedly the first builders in the history of mankind, constantly striving to discover the eternal and right rules of form and proportion. Even if we visit cities …

The legacy of the Hittites and the poetite states

Turkey is a patchwork of many cultures of our world. Here we find traces of the Hittites, examples of Greek and Roman ancient architecture, buildings from the Byzantine period and extremely interesting Turkish monuments. In museums we will admire, among others. beautiful ancient carvings, Byzantine mosaics and magnificent Ottoman specimens …