A bedesten (variants: bezistan, bezisten, bedestan) is a type of covered market or market hall which was historically found in the cities of the Ottoman...

Cevâhir Bedestan ("Bedesten of Gems") and was also known as Bezzâzistan-ı Cedîd ("New Bedesten") in Ottoman Turkish. The word bedesten is adapted from the...

Kırkkaşık Bedesten is a bedesten (covered market) in Tarsus, Turkey. There are figures of lotus carved on the pediment of the bedesten. In the Medieval...

Bedesten or Bedestan is a historical building in the Selimiye quarter of North Nicosia, North Cyprus, located directly beside the Selimiye Mosque. The...

The Bedesten of Thessaloniki (Greek: Μπεζεστένι Θεσσαλονίκης) is a historical Ottoman market in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, built during the reign...

Ottoman-era bedesten (Μπεζεστένι) a fifteenth-century building in Eleftherias Square. The bedesten is an enclosed and covered market. The Serres bedesten was...

passageway with stores along one or both sides. Bazaari Bedesten (also known as bezistan, bezisten, bedesten) refers to a covered bazaar and an open bazaar in...

libraries, numerous schools, 12 churches, three synagogues, and the largest bedesten (market) of the Balkans. Additionally, there were fountains and hammams...

The bedesten (Greek: μπεζεστένι, romanized: bezesteni) is an Ottoman enclosed market (bedesten) in the city of Larissa, Greece. The bedesten is located...

market structures were common: the bedesten, the arasta, and the han (Turkish cognate of khān). The Ottoman bedesten was a solid stone building, typically...