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Evliya Çelebi – the legendary 17th century storyteller


“When I left the clean town of Sofia on March 6th 1662, I was walking east through a field of tulips until I reached the village of Lozena.” This is the way Ottoman traveler of the seventeenth century Evliya Çelebi described in his “Book of Travels” (Seyâhatnâme) “the famous town of Sofia.” In folk tales, songs, proverbs, stories, poems, he described the customs, dances, beliefs, relations, traditions, cuisine, arts and crafts in the places he visited: Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Transylvania, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, …read more

Source: Radio Bulgaria

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