Qualla: Eğlenhoca https://qualla.com/eglenhoca en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/g/eglenhoca-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Eğlenhoca https://qualla.com/eglenhoca Eğlenhoca: Introduction https://qualla.com/eglenhoca/ Photo credit Yilanhoca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before she climbed onto the horse that would carry her to her wedding, the bride's father tied a red sash around her waist. Money was bundled into one end, and the sash had a name: the gayret kuşağı, the effort sash. It was a promise made of cloth, that this young woman would not be lazy in her new home. On her head she wore bay leaves dipped in gold. This was the marriage custom of Eğlenhoca, a hillside village on Turkey's Karaburun peninsula where, even now, fewer than five hundred people live among vineyards and olive groves that the İzmir municipality folds into its touristic Olive and Vineyard Routes.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/g/eglenhoca-wp/swfg-e-lenhoca-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Eğlenhoca: Five Hundred Years on the Same Slope https://qualla.com/eglenhoca/ Photo credit Yilanhoca, CC BY-SA 4.0. The present village was founded around 1505, but people have lived on this land for far longer. A Paleolithic site has been reported just east of the village at Kemerdağı, and the fields nearby have given up Byzantine building stones, broken columns, and a carved relief, the scat...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/g/eglenhoca-wp/swfg-e-lenhoca-five-hundred-years-on-the-same-slope.mp3 0:06 2 full Eğlenhoca: Houses Built to Survive the Earth https://qualla.com/eglenhoca/ Photo credit Yilanhoca, CC BY-SA 4.0. A traditional Eğlenhoca house tells you something about living on shifting ground. The lower walls are raised from yellowish-white rubble stone, the gaps packed with smaller stones and chips of brick and tile, all bound with mud mortar into walls up to eighty centimeters thick. L...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/g/eglenhoca-wp/swfg-e-lenhoca-houses-built-to-survive-the-earth.mp3 0:06 3 full Eğlenhoca: When the Ground Shook https://qualla.com/eglenhoca/ Photo credit Yilanhoca, CC BY-SA 4.0. The land here has a long memory of violence. In 1949 an earthquake of the most severe intensity on the Mercalli-Sieberg scale struck the village and its surroundings, leaving houses uninhabitable. The disaster drew national attention: a delegation that included Celâl Bayar and Ad...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/g/eglenhoca-wp/swfg-e-lenhoca-when-the-ground-shook.mp3 0:06 4 full Eğlenhoca: The Mosque and the Water https://qualla.com/eglenhoca/ Photo credit Yilanhoca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two structures anchor the modern village. The Eğlenhoca Mosque was begun in 1813 and not finished until 1846, a project measured in generations rather than years; its careful decoration came later, between 1899 and 1902. Rectangular in plan, with a flat wooden ceiling and a woode...

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