A collaborative project by Afternoon Map to show all of the individual place names referred to in folk songs from around Turkey, the balkans and the middle east.
0: Uskudar'a Giderken Ver detalle |
1: Yedi Kule Ver detalle |
2: Pente Chronia Dikasmenos (I Foni tou Argile) Ver detalle |
3: Ceviz Agaci Ver detalle |
4: Yemen Turkusu Ver detalle |
5: Manastir'in Ortasinda Ver detalle |
6: Χίλια Μύρια Κύματα Ver detalle |
7: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Ver detalle |
8: Razbolese Tsare Suleyman Ver detalle |
9: Evlerin Onu Mersin Ver detalle |
10: Oy Trabzon Trabzon Ver detalle |
11: Izmir'in Kavaklari Ver detalle |
12: Beyoglunda Gezersin Ver detalle |
13: Bursa'nın Ufak Tefek Taşları Ver detalle |
14: Adana Kopru Basi Ver detalle |
15: Kozanoglu Ver detalle |
16: Yandi Cukurova Ver detalle |
17: Afyon Ortasinda Galesi Var Ver detalle |
18: Erzurum’dan Çevirdiler Yolumu Ver detalle |
19: Ağrı Dağından Uçtum Ver detalle |
20: Chechen Kizi Ver detalle |
21: Aydin Icinde Kapali Carsi Ver detalle |
22: Ünye'den Çıktım da Başım Selamet Ver detalle |
23: Diyarbakir Turkusu Ver detalle |
24: Tebriz Üstü Maraga Ver detalle |
25: Gidiyorum Corum'a Ver detalle |
26: Giresun Kayıkları Ver detalle |
27: Al Yemeni Mor Yemeni Ver detalle |
28: Manisa'yla Bergama'nın Arası Ver detalle |
29: Akçadağ'ın Düzüne Ver detalle |
30: Malatya'nın Eline Serin Dediler Ver detalle |
31: Antalya’ nın Mor Üzümü Ver detalle |
32: Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri Ver detalle |
33: Arpacay Asti Dasti Ver detalle |
34: Salonica Ver detalle |
35: Spava Mi Se Ver detalle |
36: Oj Ti Mome Ohrigance Ver detalle |
37: Baku, Tabriz, Ankara Ver detalle |
38: 442 do Beograda Ver detalle |
39: Zagreb, Zagreb Ver detalle |
40: Calin Davullari Ver detalle |
41: Jovano Jovanka Ver detalle |
42: Kopacka Ver detalle |
43: Raspukala Šar Planina Ver detalle |
44: Ivanica Ver detalle |
45: Jove Malaj Mome Ver detalle |
46: Katerino Mome Ver detalle |
47: Nazad Nazad Ver detalle |
48: More Sokol Pie Ver detalle |
49: Sto Me E Milo Ver detalle |
50: Karavana Chajka Ver detalle |
51: Niška Banja Ver detalle |
52: Iste Hendek Ver detalle |
53: Ince Mehmet Ver detalle |
54: Pote tha kanei xasteria Ver detalle |
55: Placemark 54 Ver detalle |
56: Ta Kavourakia Ver detalle |
57: Thessalikos Kiklos Ver detalle |
Uskudar'a Giderken is a traditional song with a version in almost every language from the Balkans to the Middle East. Perhaps the rendition remains Boney M's
Sung by Cem Karaca, Ceviz Agaci is a song based on a poem by Communist poet Nazim Hikmet about hiding in a walnut tree while meeting his lover in Gulhane Park.
Manastir'in Ortasinda describes the women of Manastir (now Bitola) in Macedonia. This was a favorite song of Ataturk, who attended military school in Manastir.
Χίλια Μύρια Κύματα conveys the loss experienced by Greeks from Ayvalik who were forcibly deported to Greece during the 1922 Greek-Turkish population exchange
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is an Australian anti-war song based on the ANZAC experience of Gallipoli, most famously recorded by the Irish band the Pogues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52s7ign57qo
Ünye’den Çıktım Başım Selamet
Written by Yusuf Hayaloglu, the Diyarbakir Turkusu was made famous by Ahmet Kaya on the album beni bul.
A remarkably upbeat rendition of a song about someone's arm being crushed on the way to Corum.
As this song explains, the women of Cyprus, the women of Cyprus are hardly better than those of Manastir.
While listening to Manisa'yla Bergama'nın Arası you can check out this map of Ottoman travel times to see how long the trip might have taken.
As if you needed to be told again, this song reminds you not to believe everything people tell you about Malatya, or what your love is doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tihNWKjwwGA
Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri (Balam)
Eli De Amalı Gızlar
Bulak Da Göyçekleri (Balam)
Yandım Cilveli Gızlar
Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri (Balam)
Bulak Da Göyçekleri
Yel Vurdu Da Düşürdü (Balam)
Başında Leçekleri
Spava Mi Se features a son threatening to run away to Dobruja if his mother does not promise him the girl with the hair::text like peacock feathers.
This catchy, pan-Turkist anthem has not just one city but three in its title.
Bajaga's song perfectly captures that feeling of being from Belgrade and dating a woman in Zagreb, 442 kilometers away.
A stirring tribute to Zagreb, and one that kind of makes it sound::text like it's in Italy,
If Otis Reading had been sitting on the banks of the Vardar, i think this is the song that would have resulted
Dimna Juda built (a palace) on the Vlajina Mountain.
She pounded in the building stakes with the bachelors she enslaved.
And the story was told that the girls were for marrying.
They say the best songs are about women mourning for dead shepards:
There was an avalanche on Šar Planina and three shepherds were buried alive. (lit. the mountain burst or cracked and covered up three shepherds.)
The first shepherd pleads, Let me go, Šar Planina. I have a wife who will mourn me.
The second shepherd pleads, Let me go, Šar Planina. I have a sister who will mourn me.
The third shepherd pleads, Let me go, Šar Planina. I have a mother who will mourn me.
The mountain answers:
The wife will mourn until midday.
The sister will mourn until she leaves home.
The mother will mourn unto the grave".
Nazad, nazad, mome Kalino,
Ne odi podir mene,
// che pred nazi ima gora visoka
ne k'e mozhesh da ja preminesh