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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [68r] (140/348)
The record is made up of 1 volume (170 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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FOOD AND DRINK
131
life is reversed. One eats, drinks, and visits during the night,
and goes to bed at sunrise, spending half of the day in sleep.
The moment in Ramadan when the muezzin gives the call to
prayer at sunset is awaited with great impatience. It is prac
tically the signal for the if tar, i. e. the meal by which the fast
is broken. There is much life in the streets during the night.
All the minarets are illuminated, as well as the interiors of
the mosques. Life becomes most animated on the Holy Night
(Night of All Power), which is the 27th Ramadan. On this
night, according to the belief of the Moslems, there occur
thousands of invisible wonders, and prayers offered then are
peculiarly meritorious, because on this night the Koran was
sent from heaven to the Prophet.
The joy over the termination of the fast finds its expression
in the feast of Bairam, which is celebrated on the first three
days of the month following on Ramadan.
Coffee and Tobacco, &c. One of the first duties when
receiving guests is to present them with coffee and cigarettes.
Christians usually preface this by bringing in a dish on which
is a pot of confectionery and as many spoons and glasses of
water as there are guests. Each one ought to take a small
spoonful of the sweatmeat, swallow it, replace the spoon on
the tray, and take a sip of water. But each guest must take
care not to fill his spoon too full, or to take a second spoonful,
or to replace his spoon in the pot after having used it ; other
wise he will be regarded as greedy or badly brought up. To
offer coffee and tobacco is the most elementary act of polite
ness. One consumes quantities of coffee which would be
excessive in the West, but which appear to do no harm in
Turkey, probably owing to the excellence of the preparation
of the coffee. The mixing of the grains with the liquid is
disliked at first by Europeans, but they soon recognize that
it heightens the flavour. The little porcelain coffee cups (finjan)
have an oval bottom and are placed on a sort of egg-cup
stand of copper or silver filigree ; the use of European cups
is, however, spreading.
Cafes are very numerous. Their stock-in-trade usually
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Copy of 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe, prepared on behalf of the Admiralty , Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, January 1917.'
The volume contains thirteen photographic plates (folios 99-106) and a map (folio 171).
Contents (folio 6):
Section I
- I. Boundaries and Physical Features, p 9 (f 7);
- II. Climate, p 27 (f 16);
- III. Modern History, p 34 (f 19v);
- IV. Ethnology and Languages, p 49 (f 27);
- V. Religions, p 66 (f 35v);
- VI. Government and Administration, p 96 (f 50v);
- VII. Turkish Social Life, p 114 (f 59v);
- VIII. Economic Geography and Finance, p 142 (f 73v);
- IX. Chief Towns, p 166 (f 85v);
- X. Money, Weights and Measures, the Calendar, p 185 (f 95).
Section II. Itineraries.
- Roads, p 193(f 107);
- Railways, p 276 (f 148v).
Index, p 307 (f 164).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (170 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents at folio 6, and an index at folios 164-170.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 172; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An original pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 7-170.
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- Title
- 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 107r:170v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence