The Tulip originates from the far East (Kazakhstan and neighboring countries, where wild tulips are still abundant). By conquests of Suleiman the magnificent, this area came under Ottoman influence. Thus the tulip, named after the tulipan (the turban, the head-dress of the sultans), became the great fashion flower in the Ottoman court. Around 1590 Carolus Clusius brought the first tulip bulbs to the Netherlands.