Bazaars

thumb|The Moorish Bazaar by Edwin Lord Weeks, 1873. thumb|Group in the Marketplace, Jamaica, from ''Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, 1861, p. 176. thumb|Spruce Beer Sellers in Jamaica, from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, 1861, p. 176. alt=A picture of a traditional market place in Africa.|thumb|Traditional market place in Africa A marketplace, market place, or just market, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a marketplace may be described as a souk (from Arabic), bazaar (fr

thumb|upright=1.3|The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul|Grand Bazaar in [[Istanbul, Turkey]] A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets that have doors on each end and served as a city's central marketplace.

bazaar in Tabriz, Iranian national heritage site

annual music festival in Vitebsk, Belarus

Baščaršija (Cyrillic: Башчаршија; ) is Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city. It is also a local community within the Stari Grad municipality. Baščaršija was built in the 15th century when Isa-beg Ishaković founded the city.

bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

han in Skopje, North Macedonia

largest market in Turkmenistan

Upal (; ) is a town in Shufu County in Western Xinjiang, China.

annual flea market in France

bazaar in Bishkek

a major market in the walled city of Delhi, India

building in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

one of the largest and oldest covered markets in Ashgabat, in Turkmenistan

Market in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

the ancient section of kandahar city

human settlement in India

Market in Indore, India

thumb|right|Grand Bazaar, Tehran|Grand Bazaar of [[Tehran (2004)]] '''''' ( ) is the merchant class and workers of bazaars, the traditional marketplaces of Iran. are involved in "petty trade of a traditional, or nearly traditional, kind, centered on the bazaar and its Islamic culture". They have been described as "the class of people who helped make the 1979 Iranian Revolution".

wholesale market in Fengtai, Beijing

A traditional bazzar

historic market in Casablanca, Morocco

outdoor market in Odesa, Ukraine

shopping street in Istanbul, Turkey

market in Almaty, Kazakhstan