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Mideast stopover
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imaret
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n. (context historical or architecture English) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
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n. a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey
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An imaret is one of a few names used to identify the public soup kitchens built throughout the Ottoman Empire from the 14th to the 19th centuries. These public kitchens were often part of a larger complex known as a Waqf , which could include hospices , ...