Bazaar Essay

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Bazaar A bazaar (Bengali: বাজার, Persian: بازار, Arabic: بازار‎, Urdu: بازار, Turkish: pazar, Serbian: pazar, Polish: bazar, Russian: базар, Malay: pasar, Hindi: बाज़ार, Greek: παζάρι (pazari), Cypriot Greek: pantopoula) is a permanent merchandising area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work that area. The word derives from the Persian word bāzār, the etymology of which goes back to the Middle Persian word baha-char (بهاچار), meaning "the place of prices". Although the current meaning of the word is believed to have originated in Persia, its use has spread and now has been accepted into the vernacular in countries around the world.The rise of large Bazaar's and stock trading centers in the Muslim World allowed the creation on new capitols and eventually new empires. New and wealthy cities such as Istanbul, Isfahan, Golconda, Samarkand, Cairo, Baghdad, Timbuktu were founded along trade routes and bazaars. In North America, the term can be used as a synonym for a "rummage sale", to describe charity fundraising events held by churches or other community organizations, in which donated, used goods, such as books, clothes, and household items are sold for low prices, or else the goods may be new and handcrafted (or home-baked), as at a church's Christmas bazaar. A bazaar (Persian: بازار) is a permanent merchandizing area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold. Originating from ancient Islamic civilizations, the bazaar is the precursor for the modern day supermarket, flea-market, and shopping mall, and has had a great influence on the economic development and centralization in modern cities around the world. The bazaar first appeared along the important trade routes. The constant flow

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