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Map of Central Greece, the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands.

Tags: Aegean islands, Central Greece, Cyclades, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Peloponnese

Map of Central Greece, the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands.

Tags: Aegean islands, Central Greece, Cyclades, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Peloponnese

Spring on Mount Penteli.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Central Greece, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Mount Penteli / Pentelikon, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Landscape at Mount Penteli.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Mount Penteli / Pentelikon, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

The Acropolis of Athens seen from Pnyx hill.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Hymettus, Mountains, Natural environment, Parthenon, Pnyx, Views

View of the Castle of Naupactus.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castle of Naupactus, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Naupactus, Views

Imaginary depiction of an ancient temple of Demeter, most probably supposed to represent one of the temples of the goddess on Euboea, either Octonia temple or Eretria temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Eretria (Euboea), Euboea, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Oktonia, Temple of Demeter (Euboea)

View of Chalcis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, Houses, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Strait of Euripus, Towers, Views

Imaginary depiction of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Maps, Walls

Comparison of plans of ancient temples as to their size: The temple of Artemis at Ephesus (1), the Heraion of Samos (2), the sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma (3), the temple of Artemis at Sardes (4), the temple of Artemis Leucophryene at Magnesia on the Maeander (5), the temple of Dionysus at Teos (6), the temple of Athena Polias at Priene (7), in Ionic order. The temples of Agrigento (1) and Selinunte (2) in Doric order, the temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens (Corinthian order) and the Parthenon (Doric order).

Map of part of Euboea island, showing Chalcis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Fortress of Chalcis, Greece, Maps, Strait of Euripus

Map of Skiathos island and the northeastern coast of Euboea.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Central Greece, Euboea, Greece, Maps, Skiathos, Sporades islands

Funerary inscription from the church of Hagios Dimitrios in Thessaloniki. Inscriptions from a church in Thessaloniki (50 -51). Inscription from Lamia (52-53).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Greece, Inscriptions, Lamia, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

1, 3: Votive offerings, possibly from Kerameikos cemetery: Urn with relief, funerary stele. 2. Statue of Nike.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Kerameikos, Reliefs, Sculptures, Urns, Votive offerings / Ex-voto

Antiquities from Athens: 1. Ionic column capital from the inner peristyle of the Propylaea of the Acropolis. 2. Drawings of the entablature, side view and section of a column capital from the inner peristyle of the Acropolis Propylaea. Plan of Ionic column, drawings of the pedestal. 3. Inscriptions on a metope found in the ancient Agora of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient agorae, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Reliefs, Sculptures

The Gate of Athena Archegetis at the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Houses

The temple of Athena Nike at the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Views

The Parthenon seen from the Propylaea.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Parthenon, Views

The Acropolis seen from Pnyx hill.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Views

Title page.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Coins, Greece, Title page

The plain of Marathon.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Marathon, Natural environment, Tumulus of Marathon

Landscape in Euboea. Chalcis in the background.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, Houses, Human types, Natural environment, Strait of Euripus

The strait of Euripus in Central Greece.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Children, Equids, Euboea, Greece, Houses, Human types, Natural environment, Strait of Euripus, Women

Ancient wall at Achinos, Phthiotis.

Tags: Achinos, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Walls

View of Lamia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castle of Lamia, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Human types, Lamia, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Natural environment, Phthiotis

The thermal springs of Thermopylae, at the outfall of Spercheios river into the Malian gulf.

Tags: Central Greece, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Human types, Maliac gulf, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Rivers, Spercheios river, Thermal springs, Thermopylae

Stone bridge over Spercheios river, in Central Greece.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bridges, Central Greece, Equids, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Rivers, Spercheios river, Travel

Landscape at Thermopylae.

Tags: Animals, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Equids, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Thermopylae

Ancient wall structure at Thermopylae.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Smoking, Thermopylae, Walls

The Catabothra (underground water cave) of Lake Copais.

Tags: Boeotia, Caves, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Lake Copais, Lakes, Natural environment

Lake Copais (formerly also called lake Cephissis).

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Lake Copais, Lakes, Natural environment, Smoking, Women

Lake Yliki in Boeotia.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Lake Yliki, Lakes, Natural environment

The plain of Thebes.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Human types, Natural environment, Plain of Thebes, Thebes (Greece)

“Palikaria”, members of irregular troops of Roumeli, Greece.

Tags: Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Natural environment, Portraits, Roumeli, Shoes and footwear, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Weapons

Coins of ancient Athens. Coins of the city of Neapolis (today Kavala) in Macedonia, which was a member of the Athenian League.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Neapolis (Kavala)

The pass of Thermopylae. The mounted figures at the centre are the armed escorts of Edward Dodwell, whose mission was to protect the travelling party from the bandits who were prowling the pass of Thermopylae.

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Riders, Thermopylae, Views

View of the temple of Olympian Zeus and Ilissus river.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Rivers, Views

The dance of the dervishes at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the final stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: The two main dancers whirl while holding each other by the sash. In green, wearing a white turban, the Sheich or head of the Dervishes, who animates the dancers with his voice and by playing the tambour.

Gathering of devout Muslims at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the first stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: the faithful praise God and Prophet Muhammad.

View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea. Seated on the ground is Disdar Aga,the governor of the fortress of Acropolis. He has just been surprised by another member of the guard as he was sipping a glass of wine which he took from the travellers.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Ottoman officials, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turks

The Catabothra (underground water cave) of Lake Copais, in Boeotia.

Tags: Boeotia, Caves, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Lake Copais, Natural environment, Views, Weapons

The site of the acropolis of Orchomenos in Boeotia, on Cephisus river, from the south. Arvanite women occupied in agricultural tasks.

Tags: Acropoleis, Agricultural tasks, Architecture and built environment, Arvanites, Bridges, Central Greece, Cephissus river, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Orchomenus, Rivers, Views, Women

Parnassus mountain.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Mount Parnassus, Natural environment, Views, Women

The Kastalian spring in Delphi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castalian spring, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Delphi, Greece, Natural environment, Phocis

Map of Euboea.

Tags: Aegean sea, Central Greece, Euboea, Greece, Maps, Mythical beings, Skyros

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