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By the 15th century, tulips were among the most prized flowers; becoming the symbol of the later Ottomans. Tulips were cultivated in Byzantine Constantinople as early as 1055 but they did not come to the attention of Northern Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Northern European diplomats to the Ottoman court observed and reported on ...
Here, the Dutch elite thought that having their own special tulip bulbs was a must, and this made the prices go up, even though tulips themselves weren't worth much. [71] In the 17th century, it was unimaginable to most people that something as common as a flower could be worth so much more money than most people earned in a year.
National Tulip Day (Dutch: Nationale Tulpendag) is an annual event in January that preludes the tulip season in the Netherlands. The event has been held on the Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam since 2012. In 2021 and 2022 it was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic. In 2023 the event took place at Museum Square (Museumplein).
"Tulips from Amsterdam" is a popular romantic song, best known in the 1958 hit version by British entertainer Max Bygraves. Most English versions of the song credit its composition to Klaus Günter Neumann , Ernst Bader , Ralf Arnie, and Gene Martyn .
As part of the Liberation75 commemoration campaign, 1.1 million orange crown-shaped Liberation75 tulips (formerly known as the Orange Emperor variety), in addition to the deep red Canadian Liberator tulips, were sent from growers in the Netherlands and planted across Canada to honour the 1.1 million Canadians who served during World War II. [12 ...
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Tulips were introduced in the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century; the bulbs came from Turkey and became a very expensive, fashionable flower. To this day tulips are very popular flowers. Sometimes the pyramid vases, some perhaps inspired by the porcelain tower of Nanjing, were not used as flower vases at all, just as showpieces.
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