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jugglery; gözbağcılık art is the oldest one which is difficult to
explain, shows incredible games and need hand tricks. People who
performed these games were called "hokkabaz" by Ottomans. For the
hokka game used three reversed hokkas and a small ball; the aim
of the game was to guess that under which hokka was the ball. on
the 15th century Gelibolulu Ali wrote about them |
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jugglers of the 1582 fest were showed with two miniatures by
Osman Nakkaş. Hızır satisfied to tell there were jugglers in
a wedding that he explained. Rıfat who wrote a surmane about
the wedding of II. Matmut's daughter in 1250/1834, tells widely
about jugglers. |
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| In gözbağcılık art performed games with
round objects other than balls. For example, müfrebaz, beyzabaz,
yuvarlakbaz were the names of who performed these kind of games
with round objects like egg, ball. |
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