Tsifteteli

Tsifteteli (Greek: τσιφτετέλι) or Çiftetelli, is a rhythm and belly dance of Anatolia and the Balkans (particularly Greece). In Turkish the word means "double stringed", taken from the violin playing style that is practiced in this kind of music. There are suggestions that the dance existed in ancient Greece, known as the Aristophanic dance Cordax. It became popular in Greece through the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923, establishing itself as the most popular and most common Greek dance together with Zeibekiko.