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 Language Association Turkey into the Turkish language and its sister Turkic languages of Central Asia. It publishes "Türkçe Sözlük", the official Turkish dictionary, and "Yazım Kılavuzu", the Turkish writing guide, in addition to many other specialized dictionaries, linguistics books and several periodicals. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Turkish Language Association led massive campaigns to replace the many Arabic, Persian, Greek and French loanwords whose widespread use in the Turkish language during the centuries preceding the foundation of the Republic had created a literary language considerably different from the spoken Turkish of the time, which is now called Ottoman Turkish. Recently however,