Turkish bath Turc" ("The Turkish Bath"), depicts these spaces as magical and sexual. There are several women touching themselves or one another sensually while some dance to music played by the woman in the centre of the painting. Western male artists allowed their imaginations to run free. The hammam combines the functionality and the structural elements of its predecessors in Anatolia, the Roman thermae and baths, with the Central Asian Turkic tradition of steam bathing, ritual cleansing and respect of water From the 10th century, Turkish kingdoms began to proliferate in Anatolia in lands conquered from the Byzantine Greeks, leading eventually to
Turkish name their father's name followed by "-oğlu" ("son of"), or a nickname of the family, before their given name (e.g. "Mustafa-oğlu" Mehmet, "Köselerin" Hasan) before the modern era. The Turks who descended from a ruling house used "-zade" ("descendant in the male line"), e.g. Sami Paşazade Mehmet Bey ("Mehmet Bey, descendant/son of Sami Pasha"). The surname ("soyad", literally "lineage name" or "family name") is an ancestry-based name following a person's given names, used for addressing people or the family. The surname ("soyadı") is a single word according to Turkish law. It is not gender-specific and has no gender-dependent modifications. The "soyadı"