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View of the plain of Larissa from settlement close to the city. Snapshot of everyday life at the village.
Tags: Agricultural tasks, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bovids, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Domestic tasks, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Houses, Larissa, Natural environment, Oxen, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Spindles, Spinning, Spinning wheels, Storks, Textile manufacture, Views, Washing and laundering, Wells, 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
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.
Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Dervishes, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Human types, Inscriptions, Interiors, Musical instruments, Musicians, Percussion instruments, Priests, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Sheikhs, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Tekije (Dervish lodge)
The west front of the Parthenon and the Erechtheion, from the Propylaea.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Ethnic groups, Greece, Houses, Human types, Ottoman officials, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Turks, 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
Agios Markos square, Zakynthos island
Tags: Animal husbandry, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Children, Christian priests, Church of Hagios Markos (Zakynthos), Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Goats, Greece, Hagios Markos square (Zakynthos), Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Members of the military, Ports, Priests, Professions, Shepherds, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Squares, Views, Weapons, Women, Zakynthos
The procession of Agios Spyridonas at Spianada, in the town of Corfu.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Children, Churches, Clocks, Corfu, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Equids, Greece, Horses, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Procession of Agios Spyridonas, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Spianada (Corfu), Views, Weapons, Women
Feast of St. Jason and Sosipatros in Corfu island.
Tags: Agricultural tasks, Agricultural tools, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Barrels, Baskets, Boats and ships, Children, Churches, Corfu, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dancers, Dogs, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fairs, Festivities / Celebrations, Greece, Horses, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Peasants, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Views, Weapons, Windmills, Women
Processing of cotton in Limni, Euboea.
Tags: Agriculture, Architecture and built environment, Books, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cotton crops, Domestic tasks, Economic activities, Euboea, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Natural environment, Sewing, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Spinning wheels, Textile manufacture, Views, Weaving looms, Women
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
“Pano-kato” dance.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Greece, Houses, Human types, Interiors, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Percussion instruments, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Weapons, Women
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
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
Hagia Sophia, Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I (Blue Mosque) and Laleli Mosque, Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Istanbul, Laleli Mosque (Laleli Camii), Mausoleum of Mustafa Paşa III (Istanbul), Mausoleums, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Smoking, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Thrace, Turkey
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