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The name of the fruit is a Persian loanword [11] meaning turnip. It is either called turnip juice, turnip water, [12] shalgam juice, [13] or shalgam water. [14] The French traveler, naturalist and writer Pierre Belon described its production method in the 16th century. [15] Şalgam is produced by lactic acid fermentation.
The Hagia Sophia Hurrem Sultan Bathhouse (Turkish: Ayasofya Hürrem Sultan Hamamı, aka Hagia Sophia Haseki Bathhouse (Ayasofya Haseki Hamamı) and Haseki Hurrem Sultan Bathhouse (Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hamamı)) is a sixteenth-century Turkish bath (hamam) in Istanbul, Turkey. It was commissioned by Hurrem Sultan (also known as Roxelana, the ...
Hammam. A hammam (Arabic: حمّام, romanized: ḥammām), also often called a Turkish bath by Westerners, [1] is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model of the Roman thermae.[2][3][4] Muslim bathhouses or ...
The bath was built in the 2nd century and used in Byzantine, Selcuk, and Ottoman periods and still open to the public in modern Turkey. [3] The large thermal pool measures 23,30x12,80 meters and has a depth of 1.34 meters. Pool water is about 45 °C. There is an inner pool measuring 16.00x4.00 meters with symmetrical ladders on its both sides.
Architect (s) Mimar Sinan. The Süleymaniye Hamam is a historic Turkish bath (hamam) in Istanbul, Turkey, that forms part of the Süleymaniye Mosque complex. The building, on a hill facing the Golden Horn, was built in 1557 by Turkish architect, Mimar Sinan, and was named for his patron, Süleyman the Magnificent, who had commissioned it.
Pamukkale, (Turkish pronunciation: [pamuk̚'kalɛ]) meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water. [1][2] It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate ...
Turkey. Coordinates. 39°56′47″N 32°51′11″E / 39.9465°N 32.853°E / 39.9465; 32.853. The Roman Baths of Ankara are the ruined remains of an ancient Roman bath complex in Ankara, Turkey, which were uncovered by excavations carried out in 1937–1944, and have subsequently been opened to the public as an open-air museum. [1 ...
The Hagiasma. According to historians Procopius and Cedrenus, the church was originally erected by Emperor Justinian in the last years of his reign (559-560) near a fountain of water from a holy well (Greek: ἁγίασμα, hagiasma, whence Turkish: ayazma) situated outside the walls of Theodosius II in correspondence of today's Gate of Silivri. [2]