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View of the port of Rhodes. View of Yaffa, Israel. Ottomans playing chess. Ottoman women having coffee in their private quarters.
Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Carpets, Castles and fortresses, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Fortress of Yaffa, Games, Greece, Houses, Israel, Istanbul, Jewellery, Leisure, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turks, Walls of Constantinople, Windmills, Women, Yaffa / anc. Ioppe
Leisure scene at the location of Sweet Waters of Asia.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Küçüksu fountain (Küçüksu Çeşmesi), Leisure, Leisure spaces, Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain (Mihrişah Valide Sultan Çeşmesi), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Asia / Göksu Deresi / byz. Potamion, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Women
The bazaar of Athens. On the forefront, on the right, an emancipated African slave. On the doorway, the owner of the coffeehouse who is brigning a tray with coffee to the Ottoman governor Disdar Aga. Disdar Aga is sitting on the stairs, dressed in red, and next to him sits another Turkish aga. Standing at the entrance of the coffeehouse, the Greek voivode (governor) of Salamis island, who is conversing a Greek Baratario (protegé of a foreign power). At the centre of the picture, three Turkish women covered with long white veils. According to Edward Dodwell's description, the rest of the women depicted are Arvanite. Standing, on the right, a devout Muslim in green costume, an indication that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Africans, Animals, Arvanites, Athens, Attica, Cafés / Cafeneia, Carpets, Castles and fortresses, Children, Coffee, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Greengrocers, Human types, Itinerant traders, Merchants / Traders, Monastiraki, Mosques, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman officials, Pack animals, Pilgrims, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Street markets and bazaars, Turks, Tzistaraki Mosque (Athens), Views, Voivodes, Walls, Women
Dinner at Crisso, near Delphi, in the house of the bishop of Salona.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bishops, Carpets, Central Greece, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Crisso, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Houses, Natural environment, Notables, Phocis, Priests, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Women
A European ambassador appears before the Sultan.
Tags: Ambassadors, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Furniture, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Turks
A European ambassador has dinner with the Grand Vizier.
Tags: Ambassadors, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Ṭuğrā (Seals – signatures of the Sultan) (Seals – signatures of the Sultan), Turkey, Turks
Muslim women entertaining themelves in their private quarters.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Houses, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Muslim women, Qanun (instrument), Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Spinning, Thrace, Turkey, Turkish women, Women
Religious ceremony in the Audience Hall of Tokapi Palace on the eve of the Bayram.
Tags: Audience Hall (Arz odası), Bayram, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey
The Grand Vizier offers dinner (Ifter) to other Ottoman officials during the Ramadan.
Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Festivities / Celebrations, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Houses, Human types, Iftar / Ramadan dinner, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman officials, Ramadan, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
The public library of Grand Vizier Recip Paşa in Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Books, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Libraries, Library of Recep Paşa (Istanbul), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Quranic inscriptions, Recep Pasha, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
The public library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Istanbul.
Tags: Abdul Hamid I / I. Abdul Hamid, Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Libraries, Library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (Istanbul), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultans, 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
The French ambassador Chateau-nef's audience with the administrator (Caimacam) of Istanbul.
Tags: Ambassadors, Audiences-Receptions, Carpets, Chateau-neuf, Costume - Hats and headwear, Diplomats, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, French, Furniture, Gifts, History, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Officials, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey
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