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Scene at the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Kapalı çarşı /Grand Bazaar, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Shops, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Water sellers, 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
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
Town and harbour of Vathi, Ithaka island.
Tags: Baskets, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Ithaca, Members of the military, Ports, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Vathy (Ithaca), Windmills
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
A bazaar in Corinth.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Corinth, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Equids, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Mosques, Pack animals, Peloponnese, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Views, Weapons, Women
View of the mosque built on the site of the temple of Bacchus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baskets, Children, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Houses, Human types, Latakia / anc. Laodicea, Mosques, Religious practices, Shops, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Syria, Women
Caravanserai at Küçükçekmece, near Istanbul.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Fountains / Springs, Horses, Houses, Human types, Inns, Inscriptions, Istanbul, Küçükçekmece, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman inscriptions, Ottoman monuments, Shops, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Travel, Turkey, Women
View of Tophane square and the Fountain of Mahmut I.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Barrels, Children, Economic activities, Fountain of Mahmut I / I. Mahmut Sultan Çeşmesi, Fountains / Springs, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Kiliç Ali Pasha Complex (Kılıç Ali Paşa Külliye), Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Thrace, Tophane, Turkey, Views, Watermelons, Women
Fishing of caviar and beluga at the oufall of the Volga into the Caspian Sea.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Beluga sturgeon (Huso huso), Boats and ships, Camels, Caviar, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Fish, Fishermen, Fishing, Natural environment, Rivers, Russian sturgeon ( Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), Social sphere and everyday life, Sturgeons (Acipenseridae), Views, Volga river
The Petrovaradin Castle, Serbia.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Economic activities, Fortifications and fortresses, Holy Roman Empire – Habsburg Empire, Human types, Medieval monuments, Novi Sad, Petrovaradin, Petrovaradin Castle, Rivers, Serbia, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Views, Women
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