A Description of Chūgān in the Ottoman Empire

One of the chapters of the Siyāḥat-nāmah by Evliya Çelebi (Awliyā Chalabī, q.v.) contains a report about chūgān as played in the eastern Anatolian town of Bitlis in 1066/1656 which echoes the accounts by Persian writers. In the original Turkish text the word used for the polo field is chūgān. Accor…