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Evliya Çelebi

Type Figure Region Ottoman Empire Time 1611–1682 Also known as Evliya Çelebi、Evliya Celebi、埃夫利亚·切莱比

Evliya Çelebi (1611–1682), Ottoman traveler and writer from a family of palace attendants in Istanbul.…

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  1. 1631–1640Istanbul · Ottoman EmpireServed as an attendant at the Istanbul palace in the 1630s, accompanying the sultan on journeys and widely meeting envoys and merchants from across the empire, accumulating knowledge of the imperial domains that laid the intellectual and social foundation for his long travels begun around 1640.

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