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Memorial service on Saturday of the Souls, Athens.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Funerary practices, Funerary steles, Greece, Mosques, Priests, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Women
The entrance to the monastery of Saint Nicholas in Curtea de Argeș, Romania.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Curtea de Argeș, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Priests, Religious practices, Romania, Romanians, Social sphere and everyday life, Wells, Women
The Holy Admnistration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos.
Tags: Carpets, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Holy Administration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos, Karyes, Macedonia, Monks, Mount Athos, Priests, Religious practices, Smoking, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations
Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.
Tags: Beauty care, Boats and ships, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dervishes, Egypt, Egyptian dances, Egyptians, Ethnic groups, French, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Percussion instruments, Priests, Professions, Servants, Ship captains, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel
Interior view of the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fatih, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mosque of Suleiman I / Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii), Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Priests, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Women
Reconstruction of Saint John's lodge in the medieval town of Rhodes. Knight Louis de Graon announces to Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson the approach of the Ottoman fleet under Mehmed II (1480).
Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, Greece, Horses, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Knights Hospitaller, Loggia of St. John (Rhodes), Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Monks, Pierre d'Aubusson, Portraits, Priests, Rhodes, Siege of Rhodes (1480)
Remains of the portico of the reservoir of the Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) at the foot of Lycabettus hill. Dairy farm belonging to Arvanites. A woman is milking her goat to make kaymak. A man has come on horseback to buy dairy products. A monk of Hagioi Asomatoi monastery is going to town with his donkey which is carrrying olives and wine. Mount Hymettus and Kaisariani monastery in the background.
Tags: Albanians, Animals, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dairy farming, Dogs, Donkeys, Ethnic groups, Goats, Greece, Horses, Husbandry, Hymettus, Kaisariani Monastery, Monks, Pack animals, Priests, Roman monuments, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Interior view of the Roman amphitheatre of Pula. Due to an epidemics among the livestock of the region, the consumption of lamb and mutton has been forbidden. Shepherds of Slavic ethnicity have sought refuge within the amphitheatre, with their herds. A monk of the order of Saint Anthony, patron of animals according to several traditions, is giving his blessing and sprinkling the sheep with holy water; this terrifies the flock and causes the dogs to bark at the monk. On the right, some weapons, which Slav inhabitants of the area always carry with them, according to the author.
Tags: Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Husbandry, Istria, Monks, Order of Saint Anthony, Priests, Professions, Pula / anc. Polai, Rites of blessing, Roman monuments, Roman theatre of Pula, Sheep, Shepherds, Slovene-Croats (Istria), Weapons
The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.
Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge), is standing at the entrance of the monument, leaning on a staff, with his back turned.
In the foreground, a woman from an affluent family is promenading with her daughters and maidservant.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Horses, Human types, Ottomans, Priests, Women
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