`folk-calendar` Related Article Results

Folk calendar is a system shaped by long-term observation and experience regarding the relationship between time and life in a particular region or community. This system has been developed in connection with local natural conditions, modes of economic production, social institutions, and beliefs. The folk calendar is defined as “a system of time and life that serves the function of recalling and reminding the historical, traditional, religious, educational, belief-based, legal, agricultural, po

Emirgan Korusu is a recreational area of approximately 47 hectares located on the Rumelian shore of the Bosphorus in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, between Baltalimanı and İstinye. 【1】 Known since antiquity and the Byzantine era for its dense cedar forests, the area was called "Kyparades" during the Byzantine period, meaning "cedar forest". 【2】 During the Ottoman period, the grove was granted in the mid-16th century to Nişancı Feridun Bey and later assigned in the 17th century to Emirgünoğlu