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Leisure scene, probably at the Sweet Waters of Europe at Istanbul.
Tags: Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Leisure, Leisure spaces, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Europe / Kağithane, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Women
View of the ancient theare of Syracuse, before it was excavated.
Tags: Ancient Greek colonies, Ancient theatre of Syracuse, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Equids, Houses, Human types, Italy, Music, Musical instruments, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Theatres, Views, Women
Leisure scene on Aegina island. In the background, the temple of Aphaia.
Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Turks, Weapons, Women
Valide Dam at Belgrade Forest, on the northwestern coast of the Bosporus.
Tags: Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Belgrade Forest (Belgrad Ormanı), Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Valide Dam (Valide Bendi)
The interior of the temple of Aphaia at Aegina island.
Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, String instruments, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)
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)
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