Flea Market in Berlin

Flea Market in Berlin

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A flea market (also flea market) is in the original sense a market where used items are offered by private individuals for other private individuals. The flea market probably owes its name to the idea that there are fleas in the textiles on offer. In his study of the history of the word and its relationship to the term lice market and its older equivalents in Russian and Turkish, Wolfgang Schweickard assumes that flea market is not a playful modification of lice market, but assumes an independent but comparable motivation for the two expressions.The term and the concept probably come from France (Marché aux Puces), where such markets are documented from the 19th century.

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