🇨🇾 Wedding traditions of Cyprus
10 traditions from Cyprus, best known first, across 3 cities and towns.
A wedding in Cyprus, stage by stage
The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.
Cities, towns and villages of Cyprus
🇬🇷 Greece and 1 moreKalamatianosΚαλαματιανός
A popular Greek folk dance performed in a chain at weddings and social gatheringsPerformance · Reception, dance and gifts
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreKarsilamaskarşılama (Turkish), καρσιλαμάς (Greek)
A face-to-face folk dance in 9/8 time that marks the joy of wedding gatherings across the Aegean.Performance · The wedding feast
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreKarsilamaskarşılama (Turkish), καρσιλαμάς (Greek)
A face-to-face folk dance in 9/8 time that marks the joy of wedding gatherings across the Aegean.Performance · The wedding feast
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Karsilamas: Maximilian Dörrbecker ( Chumwa ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source