Dadaloğlu
Sign in to saveDadaloğlu (Veli) (1785 ?–1868 ?) was a Turkish Ottoman, a folk poet-singer, known as ozan (bard).
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1785?
- Died
- 1868?
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Dadaloğlu
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Active from
- 1933
- Active to
- 1999-08-30
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 32
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Toroslar
- Place of death
- Amasya
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ottoman Turkish
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Kaman Dadaloglu-Denkmal.JPG
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- date of death
- 1868-01-01
- Commons category
- Dadaloğlu
- date of birth
- 1785-01-01
- name in native language
- Dadaloğlu
- writing language
- Ottoman Turkish
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Background
- Biography
- Style
- References
- Further reading
Dadaloğlu (Veli) (1785 ?–1868 ?) was a Turkish Ottoman, a folk poet-singer, known as ozan (bard).
==Background== Two distinct literatures existed in the Ottoman Empire. Literature of the palace, so called divan literature used Ottoman Turkish, a language which extensively borrowed words and phrases from Persian and Arabic. This language was not used in daily speech and was not intelligible for most of the population. Conversely, the folklore literature used everyday language which was Turkish with a minimum number of words borrowed from other languages. The best known examples of folklore literature were poems named koşma. A special type of koşma was varsağı which can be described as epic koşma.
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