Tulips were introduced to the western world by the Vienna ambassador to Turkey, who wrote about the flowers he had seen in Edirne, Turkey, in 1551. Later he sent some of their seeds to Austria. The arrival of a cargo of tulip bulbs in Antwerp in 1562 marked the beginning of European tulip cultivation. Ottoman sultans wore a tulip on their turban as a symbol. The name tulip thus comes from the Persian word "doelband" (دولبند) meaning turban.
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