Bazaar Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is "Kapalıçarşı" (gated shopping area), while the Spice Bazaar is the "Mısır Çarşısı" (Egyptian shopping area). The Arabic term, souk (souq or suk) is a synonym for bazaar in Arab-speaking countries. Bazaars originated in the Middle East, probably in Persia. Pourjafara et al., point to historical records documenting the concept of a bazaar as early as 3000 BC. By the 4th century (CE), a network of bazaars had sprung up alongside ancient caravan trade routes. Bazaars were typically situated in close proximity to ruling palaces, citadels or mosques, not only because the city afforded traders some
Morphic word Morphic word In mathematics and computer science, a morphic word or substitutive word is an infinite sequence of symbols which is constructed from a particular class of endomorphism of a free monoid. Every automatic sequence is morphic. Let "f" be an endomorphism of the free monoid "A" on an alphabet "A" with the property that there is a letter "a" such that "f"("a") = "as" for a non-empty string "s": we say that "f" is prolongable at "a". The word is a pure morphic or pure substitutive word. Note that it is the limit of the sequence "a", "f"("a"), "f"("f"("a")),