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| has gloss | eng: Kolbastı is a popular Turkish dance. It was originally created in the 1930s in the seaport of Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. Loosely translated, kolbastı means caught red-handed by the police. According to legend, the name comes from nightly police patrols of the city to round up drunks, who made up a song with the lyrics: They came, they caught us, they beat us (in Turkish: Geldiler, bastilar, vurdular). |
| lexicalization | eng: Kolbastı |
| instance of | c/Turkish dances |
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| has gloss | swe: Kol basti är en turkisk dans, urspungligen från hamnstaden Trabzon i norra Turkiet. Dansen skapades på 1930-talet och dansens namn betyder ungefär "haffad av polisen". |
| lexicalization | swe: Kol basti |
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