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Map showing the author's itinerary.

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Maps, Travel, Turkey

4 (bottom): Geologic cross-section of the region between Tosya and Bolu. 5 (top): Geologic cross-section of the region between Bolu and Üsküdar (Istanbul).

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Bolu / anc. Bithynion / Claudiopolis/ byz. Honorias, Istanbul, Maps, Natural environment, Tosya / buz. Dokeia, Turkey, Üsküdar / gr. Scutari / anc. Chrysopolis

Inscriptions from Bolu, Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Bolu / anc. Bithynion / Claudiopolis/ byz. Honorias, Hellenistic monuments, Inscriptions, Turkey

Map of Amasya. Numbers 9 and 20 show the Tombs of the Kings of Pontus.

Tags: Amasya, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Drawings and plans, Funerary monuments, Hellenistic monuments, Maps, Mausoleums, Tombs of the Kings of Pontus (Amasya), Turkey

Gökmedrese (Celestial Madrasah) in Sivas.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Gökmedrese (Sivas), Religious schools (madrasas), Seljuk monuments, Sivas / Sevasteia, Turkey

1 (bottom): Geologic cross-section of the region between Şebinkarahisar and Sivas. 2 (middle): Geologic cross-section of the region between Sivas and Tocat. 3 (top): Geologic cross-section of the region between Tocat and Tosya.

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Maps, Mountains, Natural environment, Şebinkarahisar / anc. Colonia / byz. Mavrokastron, Sivas / Sevasteia, Tocat / byz. Eudocias, Tosya / buz. Dokeia, Turkey

1 (bottom): Geologic cross-section of the region between Redout Kale (today Kuveli) in Georgia, and Trebizond, Turkey. 2 (top): Geologic cross-section of the region between Trebizond and Erzerum. 3 (middle): Geologic cross-section of the region between Bayburt and Şebinkarahisar.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bayburt / anc. Gynmias (?) / byz. Paiperte, Black Sea, Erzurum / anc. Theodosiopolis, Georgia, Kuveli) / Redout-kale, Maps, Mountains, Natural environment, Şebinkarahisar / anc. Colonia / byz. Mavrokastron, Turkey

Topographical map of Erzerum. Numbers 1 and 2 show the town castle and the modern settlement respectively. Number 8 shows the position of Taurus mountains.

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Castle of Erzurum, Castles and fortresses, Erzurum / anc. Theodosiopolis, Maps, Mountains, Taurus mountains, Turkey

Tombs of the Kings of Pontus at Amasya: the eastern mausoleum, also known as Aynali Magara.

Tags: Amasya, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Funerary monuments, Hellenistic monuments, Human types, Mausoleums, Natural environment, Tombs of the Kings of Pontus (Amasya), Turkey

View of Sinope, Asia Minor. On the right, part of the city castle.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Byzantine monuments, Castle of Sinop, Castles and fortresses, Cemeteries, Houses, Human types, Muslim cemeteries, Ports, Sinop / anc. Sinope, Turkey, Views, Women

Church of Hagia Sophia, Trebizond.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Bridges, Byzantine monuments, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Trebizond), Horses, Human types, Trebizond, Turkey, Views

Circassian.

Tags: Black Sea, Caucasus, Circassia, Circassians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Weapons

Circassian.

Tags: Black Sea, Caucasus, Circassia, Circassians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Weapons

Sebastopol in 1855.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Boats and ships, British army, Crimea, Crimean war, Equids, History, Horses, Houses, Russia, Sebastopol, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine

View of Sebastopol in 1855, after its siege by the British army during the Crimean war.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, British army, Crimea, Crimean war, Equids, History, Horses, Houses, Modes of transport, Russia, Sebastopol, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine

Cemetery at Sebastopol. This spot was highly important to the British forces in the Crimean war.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Cemeteries, Crimea, Crimean war, Funerary monuments, History, Houses, Russia, Sebastopol, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine

Aqueduct on Chornaya river, position held by the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Crimean war.

Tags: Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Chornaya aqueduct (Crimea), Chornaya river, Crimea, Crimean war, History, Human types, Natural environment, Rivers, Russia, Sebastopol, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine

View of Sebastopol.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Crimea, Houses, Russia, Sebastopol, Ukraine, Views

Camp of the allies of the Crimean war (England, France and the Ottoman Empire) at Sebastopol.

Tags: Animals, Black Sea, British army, Crimea, Crimean war, Equids, History, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Russia, Sebastopol, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tents, Ukraine

Positions of the British army in the siege of Sebastopol.

Tags: Black Sea, British army, Crimea, Crimean war, History, Military uniforms, Natural environment, Russia, Sebastopol, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine

View of Sebastopol from the British camp during the Crimean war.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Crimea, Crimean war, History, Houses, Human types, Russia, Sebastopol, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine, Views

Landscape at Inkerman. In the foreground Chornaya river. In the background, the Byzantine fortress of Kalamita.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Byzantine monuments, Castles and fortresses, Chornaya river, Crimea, Crimean war, Fortress of Kalamita (Crimea), History, Human types, Inkerman, Ottoman monuments, Rivers, Views

The monastery of Saint George at Balaklava, close to Sebastopol. In the background, cape Aya.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balaklava / anc. Symbolon, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Byzantine monuments, Cape Aya (Crimea), Capes, Crimea, History, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint George (Balaklava), Religious practices, Russia, Russian monumens, Sebastopol, Ukraine

View of the harbour of Balaklava close to Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, on the right, the ruins of the Genoese castle. On the left, ships of the British fleet.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balaklava / anc. Symbolon, Black Sea, Boats and ships, British Navy, Crimea, Crimean war, Genoese castle (Balaklava), History, Medieval monuments, Ports, Russia, Sebastopol, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Ukraine, Views

The bay of Galata at Varna, Bulgaria. In the background, the camp of the allies of the Crimean war (England, France and the Ottoman Empire).

Tags: Animals, Bay of Galata (Varna), Black Sea, Boats and ships, Bovids, British army, Bulgaria, Carriages, Crimean war, Gulfs and bays, History, Human types, Modes of transport, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tents, Varna, Views

Map of part of eastern Thrace and northwestern Asia Minor, with Istanbul.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bithynia, Black Sea, Istanbul, Maps, Marmara sea / Propontis, Turkey

Map of the western part of the Black Sea.

Tags: Black Sea, Danube river, Maps, Rivers, Romania

Map of Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Maps, Russia, Ukraine

Map of the port of Sebastopol, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Maps, Ports, Russia, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Map of Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Maps, Russia, Sea of Azov, Ukraine

The junction of the Bosporus and Black Sea. On the hill, Yoros castle, also known as Genoese castle, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bithynia, Black Sea, Bosporus, Castles and fortresses, Human types, Istanbul, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Yoros castle (Yoros kalesi)

View of the port of İğneada, north of Istanbul, at the Black Sea.

Tags: Black Sea, İğneada, Maps, Ports, Thrace, Turkey

View of Snake Island at the Black Sea. According to the myth, this is were Thetis took the bodies of Achilles and Patroclus.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Greek mythology, Mythology, Natural environment, Snake Island / anc. Leuce, Ukraine, Views

Byzantine inscription from Pontic Olbia or Borysthenes, seen by the author at a church in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Byzantine inscriptions, Inscriptions, Mykolaiv, Pontic Olbia / Borysthenes, Ukraine

Ancient Greek inscription from the city of Pontic Olbia or Borysthenes, seen by the author at a church in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Inscriptions, Mykolaiv, Pontic Olbia / Borysthenes, Ukraine

Ancient Greek inscription from the city of Pontic Olbia or Borysthenes, seen by the author at a church in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Inscriptions, Mykolaiv, Pontic Olbia / Borysthenes, Ukraine

Coin of ancient Borysthenes or Pontic Olbia, a city in Sarmatia (historical region west of the Caspian Sea), near the mouth of Dnieper river.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Coins, Dnieper river / anc. Borysthenes, Pontic Olbia / Borysthenes, Rivers, Russia, Ukraine

View of Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.

Tags: Animals, Black Sea, Bovids, Chatyr-Dan, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Professions, Russia, Shepherds, Simferopol, Ukraine

Tomb of British prison reformer John Howard at Kerch, Crimea.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Funerary monuments, History, Horses, Human types, John Howard, Kerch / anc. Pantikapaion, Russia, Ukraine

Plant of the genus Salvia, Minth family.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Mentha, Natural environment, Plants, Russia, Salvia, Ukraine

View of Cape Fiolent between Sebastopol and Balaklava, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Cape Fiolent, Crimea, Natural environment, Russia, Ukraine, Views

View of the interior chambers of the Genoese castle near Sebastopol, Crimea.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Russia, Sevastopol, Ukraine, Views

Map of the peninsula of Heraclea and Chersonesus, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Chersonesus, Maps, Russia, Sevastopol, Ukraine

View of the bay of Balaklava near Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, the remains of the Genoese fortress.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balaklava / anc. Symbolon, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Crimea, Genoese castle (Balaklava), Houses, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Mosques, Ports, Russia, Sebastopol, Ukraine, Views

Promontory near the monastery of Saint George at Chersonesus, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Chersonesus, Natural environment, Russia, Sebastopol, Ukraine

Inscription of the Byzantine period from Crimea.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Byzantine inscriptions, Chersonesus, Crimea, Inscriptions, Russia, Sebastopol, Ukraine

Insects of the Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Insects, Natural environment, Russia, Spiders, Ukraine

View of the palace of the Khans of Crimea at Bahçesaray, Crimea.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bahçesaray, Black Sea, Crimea, Mosques, Palace of the Khans / Hansaray (Bahçesaray), Palaces, Russia, Tatars, Ukraine, Views

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