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visit Lucknow, India
BAZAARS IN IRAN ; PAST AND PRESENT
The Trans-Siberian' s grand bazaar
     BAZAR
the word and the world
Istanbul's Bazaars
ARABESQUE VITUAL ALCAZAR
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Background music:CESAR CUI - Oriental (1873)
THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES
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       BAZAR -  the word
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             and  history
BAZAAR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
Since the history of trade is the history of cities, its origins are to be found by the rivers of Babylon, in the marketplaces of ancient Mesopotamia.
It was in the marketplace of early Babylonian cities where God must have confounded the tongues of so many races and kinds of people, rather than in the Tower of Babel.
There is but one word that came down to us almost unchanged by time and people:
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            Grand Bazaar in Moscow, Russia, 1903
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   BAZAR - the world
          The Gateway of the Hoospinbad Bazaar in   Lucknow, India.
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The domed roof of the bazaar in Kerman, Iran
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         Kiosk in Istanbul covered Grand Bazaar.
                         @www.corbis.com/Chris Hellier
    ARTICLES, BOOKS
The Persian Bazaars, 1910
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The Bazaar.
Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World.
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Istanbul bazaars