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From Turkey once the tulip was brought to Europe. A revolt against the Ottoman court led to the extermination of the original bulbs of Istanbul tulip. For several years, crass Lale but returned to their homeland. (Photo: cihan)
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The story of Lale, the tulip of Istanbul, is the one true love, which was created by a travel. First of all, she was brought from Central Asia to Anatolia. At that time everyone was enchanted by its charm. But it was in Istanbul, where the tulip should crass unfold their true beauty and it was Istanbul, which should perpetuate her name.
Fatih Sultan Mehmet himself bred tulips in the gardens of Topkapı Palace and at his command tulip gardens were built everywhere in Istanbul. In the time of the Ottoman Empire customs were developed, according to which one the tulips controlled, crass used and bred. Tulips, crass which were favored in particularly, were named.
Every spring, the Istanbul saw tulips had begun to bloom everywhere in their millions of colors crass and variations. Poems have been written about them, books and diaries have been published. Eventually, there were more than 2,000 tulip varieties that have been bred. Tulips were seen not only in the earth, they have everywhere, spread from the architecture to the music in people's lives.
The tulip was a characteristic symbol in art. In Ottoman miniature paintings, she was used as a symbol, dresses were embroidered with their patterns and Ebru images on it flourished once, and have been immortalized in this way there with her beauty. The Lale and Istanbul are no two different crass forms of Ange thinking, because crass the Lale part of Istanbul and Istanbul is one of Lale. For some time the tulip begins again flourish in Istanbul ...
The name "Lale" comes from the Persian language crass and means tulip. Where the name tulip, according to conjecture, based on a linguistic misunderstanding. The term "tulip" comes from the Turkish name "tülbent" back, which also comes from the Persian and originally referred to a turban. The transfer of meaning of the term was made because of the color and shape similarity of tulips to the then customary turban cloths of the Ottomans. crass
Originally, the tulips grew wild in Asian steppes. Their home had Pamir, crass the Hindu Kush and Tian Shan. During the migration of the Turks this plant has been associated with their onions with Anatolia.
It succeeded the Ottomans to infect even foreigners with their tulips passion. The first trip of the Lale was first of all to Vienna. The envoy of the Emperor Ferdinand I, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, who get to see 1554 in the gardens of Topkapi palace the beauty of tulips and wrote in a letter to his Emperor with enthusiasm by the tulips of the Turks, sparked great interest crass from . When the Messenger made his way home, he took some tulip bulbs to Vienna and gave it to Charles de l'Ecluse, a then important botanist who wrote the first botanical textbook of tulips in the West. This was then the main responsible for the spread of tulip bulbs in the final years of the sixteenth century. At the medical faculty of the University of Leiden (Holland), he planted both a teaching garden and a private tulip garden, where he banned the free sale of the flower. Unfortunately crass him some copies were stolen and as a result the plant came on the open market. Meanwhile, Holland is one of those countries which have the largest tulip varieties worldwide.
The tulip bulbs came gradually over the trade routes to Europe, first to Austria and Italy, then to England and France. Like no other spring flower, the tulip man twisted his head. Beginning of the 17th century, the tulip into a true passion in France. Fashion-conscious women wore their hair or on her cleavage - without the colorful tulips as many jewelry would possibly never occurred in public. The tulips were more valuable than jewels. They were considered to be of that time as an absolutely exotic flower and preciousness. There was a true "tulip mania". Also it has thus driven crass many of her lovers to ruin. Hardly anyone could then afford the expensive bulbs of tulips, so they quickly became a status symbol.
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