The word bazaar has appeared in 103 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 17 in “In Sanliurfa, the Silk Road Meets the Stone Age” by Barry Yourgrau:
Urfa’s bazaar, parts of which date back over five centuries, sits close by. Really an agglomeration of bazaars, it’s a bustling sprawl of small shops, alleys and crowded passages, the congestion relieved by Ottoman courtyards.
Villagers come from the countryside for their shopping — everything from wedding fabrics to gold, knives, watermelons and handmade cradles. “From north of the city they’re Kurds, south they’re Arab,” Dr. Bedlek explained. “And they dress up for the trip.”
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