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Encyclopedia > Bazar
The Grand Timcheh of Qom's Bazaar.
The Grand Timcheh of Qom's Bazaar.
Bazaar of Zanjan.
Bazaar of Zanjan.

For other articles called Bazaar, see Bazaar (disambiguation). Image File history File links Image by Zereshk. ... Image File history File links Image by Zereshk. ... Qom is famous for the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, first built in the late 8th century. ... Image File history File links I am providing this to Wikipedia. ... Image File history File links I am providing this to Wikipedia. ... Zanjan Province ... Bazaar can refer to: Bazaar: a market, often covered, typically found in areas of Muslim culture. ...


A bazaar is a market, often covered, typically found in areas of Muslim culture. The word derives from the Persian bāzār, whose etymology goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char meaning "the place of prices". A physical marketplace in Portugal enables buyers and sellers of produce to do business with each other. ... for Imam Muslim, see Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fārsi or پارسی Pārsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Pahlavi is a term that refers: (1) to a script used in Iran derived from the Aramaic script, and (2) more broadly, to Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language written in this script. ...


Examples of great near-Eastern bazaars include:

Words cognate to bazaar are used in many neighboring regions (for instance the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia) to mean an open market, whereas in more distant cultures the word connotes a near-Eastern style market. Tehrans 10 km long covered bazaar is an old and magnificent bazaar and still forms the heart of the bazaar activities in Iran. ... An entrance to the Grand Bazaar The Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı in Turkish) in Istanbul is one of the largest covered markets in the world with more than 58 streets and 4000 shops in it. ... The Bazaar of Isfahan is one of the oldest and largest bazaars of the Middle East. ... The Bazaar of Tabriz, located in Tabriz, Iran, is one of the oldest and largest bazaars in the Middle East. ... Peshāwar (پیشاور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pai-khawar in Pashto. ... Anarkali (Persian: اناركلى ) is a bazaar (market) located on Mall Road in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. ... The Minar-e-Pakistan represents Pakistani independence The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate in 1870 Lahore (Urdu: لاھور) is a major city in Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ... Exquisite light wells such as this can often be seen in various sections in the Kashan Bazaar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Macedonian and Serbian Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...


See also

  • A suq is the commercial quarter of an Arab city.
  • Iran Chamber Society on Architecture of the Bazaar at Isfahan
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