He is the most prominent protagonist of humorous prosaic stories in the entire Turkish-Islamic influenced area from the Balkans to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia. Its historical existence is not certain; it is believed that he was born in the 13th / 14th Lived in Akşehir in southwestern Anatolia in the 17th century.
A mausoleum with his name, which is located here, speaks for the southwestern Anatolian Akşehir as the place of his work.
All sorts of witty, humorous or fluctuating stories were subsequently attributed to him. In many stories he simply plays a joke like Klein Fritzchen, in others a kind of Till Eulenspiegel, although there are certainly similarities in the stories about Eulenspiegel (see, for example, The Sound of Money, which is comparable in Till Eulenspiegel or in Grimm's fairy tales). From Italy to India he is known in all Islamic and Christian regions, and local events are ascribed to him in many places. Nasraddin or Nostradin is claimed by most of the peoples of the regions mentioned above, but his ethnicity remains unknown.
Source: Wikipedia
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