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PREFACE Since the 13th century, our beloved character of Turkish folktales, the modest hero and the master of humour, Nasreddin Hodja, has been riding his old donkey backwards! |
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| INTRODUCTION Nasreddin Hodja is a smiling face out of the dark Middle Ages. His wit and wisdom were those of a folk philosopher, poking fun at the elite and everyone's foibles |
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 STORIES Nasreddin Hodja was awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of two quarreling men in front of his house. Hodja waited for a while but they continued to dispute with each other |
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| SOURCES Tales of Nasr-Ed-Din Khoja by Sir Valentine Chirol, Translated by Henry D. Barnham, C.M.G. Nisbet & Co. Ltd. (London, 1923) |
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| GRAPHICS Hodja miniatures, illustrations, caricatures and pictures |
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LIFE STORY He was born in 1208 in Hortu village near Sivrihisar in Central Anatolia.  As a young boy he must have enjoyed a free country childhood and lived in one of the cottages with adobe walls and flat baked earth roofs, typical of this region. |
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TRAINING Reading Exercises, Nasreddin Hodja Stories Level 330 Materials 330 Reading Exercises by English Language Centre (ELC) Study Zone.
Learning Exercises, Nasreddin Hodja and the Candles by Tech4Learning |
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HODJA LINKS Nasreddin Hoca Person of The Millennium, Nasreddin Hodja im Orienternet
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| -Hodja, my parrot can speak like a human, what can your turkey do? |
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| -If your parrot speaks, my turkey meditates! |
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