Mediterranean Mystery Auction - 2/6/13

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A Mediterranean Mystery Auction is currently featured on the LL homepage and is available for everyone to view. There will be clues throughout the duration of the auction to let you know the location of the property. So check this forum in the Community throughout the next few days to learn more! Visit the Mystery Auction - $1 starting bid landing page to view this auction along with our other live $1 starting bid auctions.

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[mvojnovic]

i think it's Istanbul. Either Ajia Hotel or The Sofa Hotel.

[LL_Moderator_ks]

CLUE:

This country introduced tulips to Europe in the 16th century.

[innocentsabroadisus]

CLUE:

This country introduced tulips to Europe in the 16th century.

Accoding to Wikepedia "The introduction of the tulip to Europe is usually attributed to Ogier de Busbecq, the ambassador of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor to the Sultan of Turkey, who sent the first tulip bulbs and seeds to Vienna in 1554 from the Ottoman Empire. Tulip bulbs were soon distributed from Vienna to Augsburg, Antwerp and Amsterdam.^[12] Its popularity and cultivation in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands)^[13] is generally thought to have started in earnest around 1593 after the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius had taken up a post at the University of Leiden and established the hortus academicus "

So the country we are looking for is Turkey.

[LL_Moderator_ks]

CLUE:

Which name has this city NOT been called: Persepolis, Byzantium or Constantinople?