[AnalogReigns]

Considering that the Turks only came into Asia Minor (now “Turkey”) about 1000 years ago, and the Byzantine Roman empire controled things before that.... a 1500 year old bath is a ROMAN bath, NOT Turkish.

Besides that the whole concept of a “Turkish Bath” was simply stolen by the Turks from the Romans—since they happened to move in and take over.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, Asia Minor was part of the Roman Empire 1500 years ago, but there was trade on the Silk Route and the Turks wer living close to that route. So the Romans could have imported some Turks to build the baths for them. It may sound far-fetched, but according to the movie Thermae Romae, in the 2nd century A.D. some Japanese came to the Roman Empire to show them how to improve their baths.

Just kidding...I know that it is anachronistic to speak of Turkish baths 1500 years ago.

On the other hand, the term "Turks" is found in some early medieval sources for some other ethnic groups the Romans/Byzantines were in contact with, long before they came into contact with the people we would call "Turks." But those earlier "Turks" were not associated with building bath houses.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, that’s right, that’s why I put the same information in my ping post.