Hammam, hammam or Turkish bath is a place where people can wash themselves and thus has a strong social function. Typically, a hammam equipped with a steam bath. Hamams are common in the highlands of Iran, the Arab world and Turkey. In Europe, they learned to know this form of baths from the Ottoman Empire. The most famous hamam in Europe Rudas Gyógyfürd? in Budapest.
The hammam has evolved from the baths of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, in conjunction with the Central Asian and Turkish tradition of steam and Islamic ritual cleansing. Hammam consists of three rooms which are linked: the hararet or sicaklik or hot room, the warm room or sogukluk and Camekan or cool area. Furthermore Camekan is also the entrance area. The hararet or sicaklik is comparable to the Roman caldarium, the tepidarium with sogukluk and Camekan with apodyterium.
Most hamams have separate areas for men and women, or have fixed times when men or women can bathe. Bathers enter the Camekan, where his dressing areas. After changing one strikes a pestemal around the waist, a cloth of silk or cotton. They also attracts nalin on wooden slippers. Usually it is possible to attract private swimsuits and slippers.
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