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A bazaar in Corinth.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Corinth, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Equids, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Mosques, Pack animals, Peloponnese, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Views, Weapons, Women
A Pasha, governor of an Ottoman province, marching towards Istanbul.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman officials, Parades, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey
Ottoman soldiers exercising in Cirit, a martial art practiced with a javelin.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Cirit, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Martial arts, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ottoman army, Ottoman kiosks, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tents, Thrace, Turkey, Weapons
Ottoman soldiers exercising in Tomak, a martial art practiced with wooden balls.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Cooks, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Martial arts, Ottoman army, Ottoman kiosks, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tents, Thrace, Tomak, Turkey, Weapons
Leisure scene at Sweet waters of Europe (Kağithane).
Saadabad palace in the distance.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman palaces, Professions, Saadabad Palace (Saadabad Sarayı), Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Europe / Kağithane, Thrace, Turkey, Women
A caravan departs from Istanbul to the Holy Mosque of Mecca during the Ramadan, with sacred camels and gifts from the Sultan.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bayram, Boats and ships, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Gifts, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim ceremonies, Parades, Pilgrimage to Mecca, Pilgrimages, Ramadan, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Travel, Turkey
Parade of horses in the Sultans's honour, in the Second Court of Topkapi Palace, on the eve of the Bayram.
Tags: Animals, Bayram, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Golden Horn, Horses, Human types, Imperial stables, Istanbul, Military parades, Mosques, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Ottoman palaces, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Stables, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey
Rites of passage in the Muslim cemetery of Eyüp, Istanbul.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eyüp / byz. Kosmidion, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
Open-air praying site; such sites existed on all big commercial routes in the Ottoman Empire.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Mosques, Muslim prayer, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Turkey
Roman aqueduct on Mount Kastron, Samos island. The aqueduct was connected to the Eupalinian aqueduct or Tunnel of Eupalinos, near the port of Pythagoreion.
Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Eupalinian aqueduct, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Mount Kastro, Natural environment, Pythagoreio, Roman aqueduct of Samos, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Samos, Turks
Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.
Tags: Amrit / anc. Marathos, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Amrit (Syria), Phoenician architecture, Phoenician monuments, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Tombs of Amrit / al Maghazil, Women
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