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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [69v] (143/348)
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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134
TURKISH SOCIAL LIFE
the reply hosh bulduk are invariable greetings for strangers,
Christians or others. The Turk gives greeting by carrying his
right hand to his breast and then to his brow. Good manners
forbid the uncovering of the head. After long separation and
on certain religious feasts, men greet one another by bringing
their cheeks into contact; they do not kiss.
Etiquette necessitates the exchange of polite phrases before
the subject-matter of a visit is entered on. An inferior is
very servile in his manner in the presence of his superior.
He folds his hands on his stomach and speaks of himself
as ‘your slave’ (hakipainis) or ‘your well-wisher’ {dua-
jiinis) ; his superior he addresses as ‘ your high person ’
(satialnis), l your excellency’ (hasretinis), ‘ your well-born ’
(jenabinis). A wife seldom calls her husband by his name,
b u t ejfendi, agha, thelebi. Even the children usually call
their parents effendi babam or agha babam, kadin nine, i.e. lord
father, lady mother.
Turks are reticent in their dealings with Christians ; they
seldom invite them to their house ; indeed, only educated
Turks of the upper classes venture to do so or to treat Chris
tians as genuine friends, and even their demeanour frequently
changes if other Mohammedans appear. A real friendship
between a Christian and a Mohammedan is exceedingly rare.
Industry. In town and country labour is cheap. There is
much want of employment, but, on the other hand, it is possible
to live on very little. Two men often do the work of one.
Bootblacks and porters are found everywhere, and hawkers
will travel a mile on the chance of selling a piastre’s worth
of stuff. There are saddlers and slipper-makers, makers of
pipe-bowls in red clay, cigarette-holders (yozghans), and
simple articles in brasswork, men who work at whitewashing,
&c. Although not so skilled as the Christians, the Turk does
much honest and some excellent work; but the mass of the
work done in the country is very primitive ; a native door
or window rarely fits properly; the planks of a floor warp;
native cloth is coarse and unequal in quality, and at its best
never as good as that coming from England. Peasant industry
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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