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The
tradition of the Turkish bath extends
far back, to a time before Turks had
reached Anatolia. When the Turks arrived
in Anatolia, they brought with them one
bathing tradition, and were confronted
with another, that of Romans and
Byzantines, with certain local variants.
The traditions merged, and with the
addition of the Moslem concern for
cleanliness and its concomitant respect
for the uses of water, there arose an
entirley new concept, that of the
Turkish Bath. In time it became an
institution, with its system of
ineradicable customs. |
