Why is the currency in Turkey called Lira? Isnt that what Italy used to have? Did Turkey copy off Italy?

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Pala Remzi

copy "off" huh? hah ha
No, Turkey copied its currency name from MADAGASCAR
you know, in Madagascar they have a currency called LIRAH and the Turkish decided to take this name
.. so that one day someone like you will come up to ask it as a "question"

PIETRO

Turkey's currency is real, but your account is fake.

Sorry, I know it hurts...

bloemkool

You have American dollars, but also dollars in Canada, Australia,...
We know pounds in GB, but also in Egypt
Before the EUR there were Francs in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg,....
Influence is of course something how a country (or a government) choose his currency. A country can also have different currency in his history, i.e. The Netherlands : Florijnen, Gulden, Euro.

Oekaki

Not only lira, but many finance-related words in Turkish come from Italian: banka (bank), borsa (stock market), piyasa (market), kasa (safe or cash register), kambiyo (exchange), iskonto (discount), etc. The Ottomans probably picked up these words from the Venetians and the Genoese, with whom they traded heavily.

Ahanda Korama

I'm waiting for you tonight at 8pm on Taksim Square, near by the MacDonalds.

Trotsky vs Kerensky- НекIо!

Ours is YETALE, not just lira. Akilli ol Suddenly Skopje!!! Akilli ol!!!! Goddam you are so stupiiitttt stupiiiitt cupiiitt!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!

canmom

The first coins were issued in Lydia in present-day Turkey in the late seventh century BC. These coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver, and were basically blobs of metal punchmarked on one side. The Lydian king Croesus (c. 560-547 BC) is said to have issued the first coins of pure gold or silver, though many believe these coins were issued after the Persian conquest of Lydia in 547. Coins soon spread throughout the Persian Empire. When Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) conquered the Persian Empire, his gold and silver coins were produced throughout the Persian Empire both by him and his Hellinistic successors.

continue to read here;

https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=showghoc&country_name=Turkey

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Originally, the lira was a gold coin that was first introduced in 1844 before which the Ottoman Empire used the ‘akce’ that was replaced by the ‘kurus’ (piaster) and the para as its part. The ‘kurus’ was originally a large silver coin that was reduced in size later on and was one hundredth of a gold lira. Each ‘kurus’ was equal to 40 para.

Soon paper money was introduced by the Imperial Ottoman Bank that was valued by the help of ‘kurus’ with denominations ranging from 5 to 5000 ‘kurus’. The lira soon took over the ‘kurus’ in mid 1870s and had denominations of 5 to 1000 liras. Further, there was the 50,000-lira banknote that helped to solve the problem of small money like 1 and 2.5 ‘kurus’.

Turkey soon abandoned the gold standard by the First World War, and by the early 1920s the gold lira could be equated to about nine liras in paper money. Soon the older Imperial Ottoman paper liras were again replaced with the Turkish lira in the form of medium sized silver coins. Notes were also introduced in the denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 lira. The notes then carried the picture of the Turkish National hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, but following his death in 1938 new notes carried the picture of President Ismet Inonu. However, in the 1950s the picture of Ataturk reappeared on the notes. The sun set on the Turkish currency from the late 1970s, when the Turkish lira decreased in value at an alarming rate in comparison to chief currencies.

http://www.turkeyforyou.com/turkey_money_history

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The lira was introduced in 1844. It replaced the kuruş as the principal unit of currency, with the kuruş continuing to circulate as a subdivision of the lira, with 100 kuruş = 1 lira. The para also continued to be used, with 40 para = 1 kuruş. Until the 1930s, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes, with پاره for para, غروش for kuruş and ليرا for lira (تورك ليراسي for "Turkish lira"). In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre, whilst the lira was known as the livre in French.

Between 1844 and 1881, the lira was on a bimetallic standard, with 1 lira = 6.61519 grams pure gold = 99.8292 grams pure silver. In 1881, the gold standard was adopted and continued until 1914. World War I saw Turkey effectively depart from the gold standard with the gold lira being worth about nine lira in paper money by the early 1920s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira

PS..edit..sorry Totally Blunt ...did not see that you already gave the same link..

..Tolia..

Turkey copy Italy and Italy copy England.

England copied Cyprus and Cyprus copied.....

lol you have strong arguments, girl

lets get serious now ok?

NOLA guy

The origin of the Lira was long before there was a modern Italy or Turkey:

http://digilander.libero.it/maggioref/Storia%20liraEng.html

Note that Dollar is also not new:

http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/dollar.html

TURKISH

What a stupid question is this?

Why do we need to copy?

Did you ask the same question to Italians?

Meat head...

TEAL'C

Well spoken, Ricardo.

Edit : In case you want to know the translation :
" And why don't you shut up, b**ch ?"

Denicia

No, you are wrong, Lira is greek musical instrument, you see dear greek boy everything is greek in this world, even stars:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/eus/ho_2003.378.htm http://www.popline.org/docs/0959/074067.html
http://www.popline.org/docs/1227/130273.html
Regards from beautiful Republic of Macedonia!!

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

Whatever. Turkey invented the idea of actual money, so what does it matter...we rock! Woohoo! :))

Totally Blunt

All facts related to the Turkish lira can be found here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira

And yes, when Italians were turning to Euro, they sold us the lira for a bargain price. Clever of us, eh?

Bix

Yes, because Italians are from the Middle East too!

greetings_losers

Skunky Skopje on stage again. Yes we did copy Italy

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