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Egyptian
Market
In
Turkish the market is named the Misir Carsisi- the Egyptian Market-
because it was built with money paid as duty on Egyptian imports.
In English it is usually known as the Spice Bazaar. This long building
covered by a row of low domes is where foodstuffs, above all spices,
are sold in a fascinating oriental athmosphere.
The
market was built in 1660 by the Sultan Turhan Hatice, mother of
Mohammed IV, at a time when most drugs, colors ans spices came from
Egypt, on the site of a precedent covered market used by the Venetians.
Stalls
in the bazaar stock herbs, spices, nuts, sweetmeats and pastirma.
Today's expensive Eastern commodity caviar ( the best variety Iranian
) is also available. Nowadays a range of other items including everything
from household goods, toys and clothes to exotic aphrodisiacs are
sold in the bazaar.
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