caravansary
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This caravansary in Iran was built in the twelfth century and served as a fortified place for travelers to rest.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He was married now and partook zealously in the Manhattan social caravansary.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
With the vast and sparsely populated landscapes of “The Revenant,” I wanted Alejandro González Iñárritu’s balletic cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to swivel the camera around to show the teeming crew and the high-tech caravansary behind them.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2015
The beach and adjacent campground looked like a hybrid of refugee camp and a tailgate party, with a winding caravansary of tarp canopies, trailers, smoking grills, windmills, kites and ancient conversion vans.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
They were to meet them in four months’ time at the caravansary in Alkonost, where the full delegation would assemble to strike out together across the Elmuthaleth.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Along the Silk Roads, caravansaries were vital outposts where merchants traveling between Turkey and China could stay and meet other traders to exchange goods, commodities, and ideas.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Soup kitchens fed thousands of people each day in major cities throughout the empire, as did the caravansaries.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The town of hundreds of madrassas and caravansaries, and 100 or so mosques, had been subjected to the only fate worse than Genghis Khan’s, that fifth horseman of the apocalypse: tourism.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
If this were the Sahara, caravansaries would have stopped by its green pools for thousands of years.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
In the ancient caravansaries, like the one at Bethlehem sacred to the Christ child, the same accommodations were meted out to man and beast alike.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
