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Evliya Çelebi
Turkish traveler and writer (1611–1682)
Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith.[1] He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatnâme ("Book of Travel").[2] The name Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God".
Life
Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya.[3] Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman court, his father, Dervish Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazian relation of the Grand Vizier of Mehmed IVMelek Ahmed Pasha.[4] In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi, the earliest known Turkic poet and an early Sufi mystic.[5] Evliya Çelebi received a