Turkey FDC
Name: 800th Anniversary of Nasreddin Hodja's Birth
Issue date: 7 February 2008
Nasreddin Hodja is Turkey's (and perhaps all of Islam's) best-known trickster. His legendary wit and droll trickery were possibly based on the exploits and words of a historical imam. Nasreddin reputedly was born in 1208 in the village of Horto near Sivrihisar. In 1237 he moved to Aksehir, where he died in the Islamic year 683 (1284 or 1285). As many as 350 anecdotes have been attributed to the Hodja, as he most often is called. Hodja is a title meaning teacher or scholar. He frequently is compared with the northern European trickster Till Eulenspiegel. More...
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Turkey Nasreddin Hodja FDC
Posted by Fan Ming at 3/02/2008 07:27:00 PM
Label: Turkey
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