1. Turkish traditions
..: Hamam... el baño turco :...
The Turks, who were a nomadic people, after giving many turned after the flocks for the
steppes of the Asia Central came to Anatolia, or since it was named in that epoch, " the
province of Asia Minor of the Roman empire ". And the Turks still did not know anything of the
Turkish bath, rather they were bathing in the rivers, lakes or in his shops of hair of goat, with
water taken of the most nearby source.
The Turks, gaining the battles against the Romans, little by little settled themselves in Anatolia.
Of this form, there was an exchange of some traditions and customs between both peoples.
One of these customs that the Turks acquired, was that of the Roman baths and the Roman
bath entered the daily Turkish life.
The Tulip:
In the year 1554, the Austrian ambassador, Busbecq wanted to know the name of an unknown
flower that had made him amazed. A gentleman on his turban was taking this flower. He asked
the translator " how is it called this? " And the translator thought that he was asking him about
turban, answered him instead of "lale" as "tülbent". This way, the name of tulip was put in
Europe. A flower that later the people of Holland would become mad for her and tulipomanía
already it had begun in Estambu's exotic life.
.: Nazar ... the evil eye:
Evil eye, or evil eye is a superstitious fenónemo, in which as his name indicates an evil happens
to a person across the voluntary or involuntary look. The evil eye is in use for avoiding the envy
or the evil feeling. The Turk calls "nazar". The children put, hang in the cars and the houses,
enclosedly in the animals, it is also for the cows, in order that they are not "mad"
Elena S. D. 2ºB