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    definite answer to the question of their origins. The German traveler Hans Dernschwam (1494–1568/69) encountered the Karamanlides living in Istanbul during...
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    traveler Hans Dernschwam to Sofia in 1553–1555, Derschwam noted the presence of 1 large bath and 2 smaller baths on either side of the city. Dernschwam described...
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    platters were often enriched with almonds, pistachios and currants. Hans Dernschwam, a 16th-century German traveler, confirms that çorba (Ottoman Turkish:...
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  • pretended ignorance. The wealthy Fuggers' representative in Hungary, Hans Dernschwam, noted in 1554 that the poor Hungarians living in Buda "had no comfort...
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    "The Caravanserai of Tuygun Pasha in Belgrade: Its Description by Hans Dernschwam (1555) and Some Notes About its Founder in the Ottoman Archives in...
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  • the remnants of the church of St. Theodore. When German traveller Hans Dernschwam visited the site in the 1550s, he noted that the dervishes cultivated...
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  • Ernuszt, Jr. was much less brilliant mind than his father and brother – Hans Dernschwam, commercial trustee of the Fuggers in Hungary characterized him as...
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