Souq Facts for Kids

A souq or souk (also spelled soq, souk, esouk, suk, sooq, souq, or suq) is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter in an Arab, or Berber city. A souk or souq is a free-market where vendors can say the going market price for their products. The term is often used for the market in any Arab or Muslim city. In modern times, it appears in Western cities, too. It may also be the weekly market in some smaller towns where no tribal conflicts would be allowed.

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The Moorish Bazaar, painting by Edwin Lord Weeks, 1873
Carpet Merchant in the Khan el Khaleel, from Georg Ebers, Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Vol. 1, Cassell & Company, New York, 1878
Souk in Amman
The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, by Amadeo Preziosi, late 19th century
The Old Bazaar of Pristina
Souk in Dubai, the Deira Souks
Troopers in the Bazaar, India, by Edwin Lord Weeks, 19th century
Timcheh Amin-o-Dowleh, Kashan Bazaar, Iran, c. 1800
Cayenne peppers at a Souk in Yemen, the Souk Al Milh
Mule moving goods around in the car-free Medina quarter, Fes, Morocco
Bazaar in Samarkand, illustration by Léon Benett for a Jules Verne novel, 1893
A Bazaar, Oil painting, Wellcome
The Bazaar, by Alexandre Defaux, 1856
The Silk Bazaar by Amedeo Preziosi, late 19th century
Souk des étoffes, Tunis by Anton Robert Leinweber, before 1921
Carpet Merchant in the Khan el Khaleel, 1878
Cashmere Travellers in a Street of Delhi by Edwin Lord Weeks 1880
Inside the Souk, Cairo by Charles Wilda, 1892
Bazaar of the Coppersmiths by David Roberts, 1838
Bazaar El Moo Ristan, by David Roberts, 1838
Bazaar in Sanandaj, Iran
Souk al-Madina in Aleppo, Syria
Muristan Souk entrance in Jerusalem
Spice Market, Marrakesh
Ouarzazate souk.
Covered souks in Bur Dubai
Souk in Tripoli

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