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Isos Sinasos
Isos Sinasos is a characteristic dance of the region and area. Like many other dances from Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ..., this one is done only by women. This dance is executed in a particular style only known in Sinasos. Isos is danced by women in pairs. The steps are the same as Varasos' dance of handkerchiefs and spoons. The women moved to the beat and rhythm through their hands and arms. The special hand gesture used by the women, was to join the three fingers together, representing the Holy Trinity. The emphasis of the dance was always on one leg and waist swings were allowed left and right. Many times onlookers to the dance would clap hands, sing along to the songs, young men also shouted various comments to distract and taunt the women. It was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Minor
Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The region is bounded by the Turkish Straits to the northwest, the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highlands to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Sea of Marmara forms a connection between the Black and Aegean seas through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits and separates Anatolia from Thrace on the Balkan peninsula of Southeast Europe. The eastern border of Anatolia has been held to be a line between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Black Sea, bounded by the Armenian Highlands to the east and Mesopotamia to the southeast. By this definition Anatolia comprises approximately the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey. Today, Anatolia is sometimes considered to be synonymous with Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafapaşa, Nevşehir
Mustafapaşa, formerly known as Sinasos (Greek: Σινασός), is a small town in the Ürgüp district of Nevşehir province, Turkey. At it lies to the west of Gomeda valley and is away from Ürgüp and away from Nevşehir town. In 2011 its population was 3,000. The Mustafa Paşa after whom the modern town is named was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the great war leader and first president of Turkey. Like most of Cappadocia, Mustafapaşa used to depend for a living on agriculture., especially grape-growing. However, it lies within the region of Cappadocia, and increasingly depends on tourism for its living with new hotels opening all the time. The town centre is home to a vocational high school party housed in a 19th-century ''medrese''. History Alongside its Turkish Muslim population, 19th-century Mustafapaşa also had a large Greek community and was known as Sinasos. Many of the Greeks were actually what became now as Karamanlides (Christians who spoke Turkish but wrote it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
