Why are there no handles on Coffee Cups in the Balkans?

Hello,

@EP actually asked me this question. When I searched for the answer to the question, I found the story interesting and wanted to tell it with a simple design.

In this design, I designed the glasses in xDesign with a few simple commands. I tried to fit the coffee pot into my dream image with the pulling and extrude features over xShape, and I made small refinements to my design that I made with xDesign and xShape by switching between applications with "X".

With an interesting story, "Why are the coffee cups in the Balkans without handles?" If we move on to the answer to the question, it actually comes from a cultural reason.

As it is known, when Christians cross, they bring the three fingers of their right hand together and touch their foreheads first, then their right and left sides, and finally their breasts. Bringing the thumb, index and middle finger together was seen as a Christian symbol and custom.

When you hold the cup handle while drinking coffee, the fingers are shaped like a cross, when the Muslim Bosnians were ridiculed by the Christians on this issue, Bosnians reacted to this and made the coffee cups without a handle and held the cup between their thumb and forefinger to form a crescent shape. they drank their coffee. This custom has survived to the present day and in Bosnia and the Sanjak Region, coffee is enjoyed in cups without handles.

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