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3 unusual facts about Tulip period


Emirgan Park

The Emirgan Park is closely associated with the tulip, the traditional flower, which gave its name to an era (1718-1730) of the Ottoman Empire.

Tulip period

Turkish Airlines decorates its planes with a painting of a tulip on its fuselage.

Abdulcelil Levni – an outstanding miniature painter who began to work in Edirne to Istanbul where he studied painting and became the court painter where the Ottoman tradition of miniature albums was revived.



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