Evliya Çelebi - Citizendia

Evliya Çelebi (اوليا چلبي), the son of the imperial goldsmith Derviş Mehmed Zılli (March 25(?), 1611 – 1682) was the most famous Ottoman traveler, having journeyed throughout the territories of the Ottoman Empire and the neighbouring lands over a period of forty years. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish

Born in 1611 in Istanbul as the son of a Turkish jeweller for the Ottoman court, he received an excellent education. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language Jewellery (also spelled jewelry, see spelling differences) is a personal Ornament, such as a necklace ring or bracelet made from Gemstones It is quite possible that he also joined the Gülşenî sufi order based on his intimate knowledge of its lodge in Cairo and a graffito referring to himself as "Evliya-yı Gülşenî" (Evliya of the Gülşenî). The Gulshani (Gülşenî is a Halvatî (Khalwati sub order founded by Pir Ibrahim Gulshani, a Kurdish Sufi Sheikh from Eastern Anatolia Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفی‌گری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property After initially traveling in Istanbul and taking notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture, he started his first journey outside the city in 1640. His collection of notes of all of his travels formed a ten-volume work called the Seyahatname (Book of Travels). Seyâhatnâme (سياحت نامه is a Persian term also used in Ottoman Turkish, which means Book of travels, denoting a literary form and tradition Although many of the descriptions in this book were written in a quite exaggerated manner, his notes are widely accepted as a useful guide to the cultural aspects and life style of Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar

The first volume deals exclusively with Istanbul and the final volume with Cairo. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey The work is immensely valuable as both a source of the Turkish culture that Evliya embodies and also as a source for the lands he reports on. The culture of Turkey is diverse combining elements derived from Ottoman, European and Middle Eastern traditions He has often been seen as unreliable, but more scholars are beginning to understand his sense of humor and are learning how to read him properly.

Currently, there is no English translation of the entire work. The longest single English translation was published in 1834 by Ritter Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, an Austrian Orientalist. Ritter is the second-lowest-ranking Title of Nobility in German-speaking areas just above an Edler, considered roughly equal to the title Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall ( June 9, 1774 &ndash November 23, 1856) was an Austrian orientalist. Von Hammer's work covers the first two volumes: Istanbul and Anatolia. Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black The translation is somewhat inaccurate and uses a bizarre transliteration system. It is out of print but can be found in some university libraries under the author name, "Evliya Efendi. " A valuable introduction to the whole travelogue, The World of Evliya Celebi: An Ottoman Mentality, was published in 2003 and features dazzling, if brief, excerpts. The book, written by University of Chicago professor Robert Dankoff, can also be found at some university libraries. Translations of his stays in Albania, Bitlis and Diyarbakır also exist. This article is about the country in southern Europe For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Albania topics. Bitlis ( Kurdish: Bilîs or Bedlîs Armenian: Baghaghesh, later Baghesh) is a town in eastern Turkey and the Diyarbakır (دیاربکر Diyâr-i Bekr 'land of the Bekr ' (from Persian) Kurdish Amed Zazaki language Dêrbekir Syriac

Evliya Çelebi is noted for having collected language specimens from each region he travelled in. There are some thirty Turkic dialects and thirty other languages catalogued in the Seyahatname. Evliya Çelebi noted the similarities between several words from German and Persian, though the reason he suggests for these was not based on any common Indo-European heritage. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. His notes on Kurdish in Eastern Anatolia are highly valued by linguists. The Kurdish language (Kurdish Kurdî or کوردی is a term used for the language spoken by Kurds. The Seyahatname also contains the first transcriptions of many Caucasian languages and Tsakonian, and the only extant specimens of written Ubykh outside the linguistic literature. Tsakonian, Tzakonian or Tsakonic ( Greek Τσακωνικά) is a dialect of modern Greek spoken in the Tsakonian region Ubykh or Ubyx is a Language of the Northwestern Caucasian group, spoken by the Ubykh people up until the early 1990s

Evliya Çelebi died sometime after 1682 though it is unclear whether he was in Istanbul or Cairo at the time. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt.

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İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında (Istanbul Under My Wings, 1996) is a film about the lives of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, during the reign of Murad IV, as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi. Lagari Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman Turk who was the first person to have made a successful manned Rocket Flight.

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