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Waterfalls of Styx, Arcadia.

Tags: Achaia, Greece, Mount Aroania / Chelmos, Mountains, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Styx, Waterfalls

The Crissaean field near Delphi.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Crissaean plain, Crisso, Greece, Houses, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Phocis, Views

The village of Kastri at Delphi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boeotia, Central Greece, Delphi, Greece, Houses, Kastri (Delphi), Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

The battlefield of Plataea with Mounts Parnassus and Helicon in the background.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Mount Helicon, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Plataea / Plataies

Landscape at Attica.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Mountains, Natural environment

Landscape at Çekirge, near the baths of Eski Kaplica.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Baths, Baths of Eski Kaplıca, Bithynia, Bursa, Çekirge, Inns, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

Mosque of Mehmed I or Green Mosque, Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bursa, Mosque of Mehmed I Celebi / Green Mosque (Yeşil Camii), Mosques, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Turkey, Views

Landscape at Gökdere, Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bridges, Bursa, Gökdere, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

West entrance to Irgandi bridge, Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bridges, Bursa, Houses, Irgandi bridge (Irgandi Köprüsü), Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Shops, Turkey, Views

Irgandi bridge, Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bridges, Bursa, Houses, Irgandi bridge (Irgandi Köprüsü), Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Shops, Turkey, Views

The Grand Mosque of Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bursa, Bursa Grand Mosque (Bursa Ulu Camii), Houses, Mosques, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Turkey, Views

Abdal bridge on the road connecting Moudania to Bursa. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Abdal bridge (Abdal Köprüsü), Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bridges, Bursa, Houses, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

View of Bursa from the mosque of Mehmed I or Green Mosque. In the background, Mount Uludag (Mysian Olympus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bursa, Houses, Mosque of Mehmed I Celebi / Green Mosque (Yeşil Camii), Mosques, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Mountains, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

Lycabettus hill and Mount Parnitha. In the distance, Mount Hymettus.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Hymettus, Lycabettus, Mount Parnitha, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Mount Lebanon.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Human types, Lebanon, Mount Lebanon, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Mount Zion. Jerusalem in the distance.

Tags: Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Mount Zion, Mountains, Natural environment, Palestine, Tents, Views, Walls of Jerusalem

View of Jerusalem from Mount Olive.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Mount of Olives (Jerusalem), Mountains, Palsstine, Views, Walls of Jerusalem, Women

Rock of Meribah on Mount Choreb; according to tradition, this was the rock out of which issued water when it was struck by Moses.

Tags: Bible, Egypt, Human types, Mount Choreb, Mountains, Natural environment, Priests, Religious practices, Rock of Moses (Mount Sinai), Sinai

Mount Moses (Mount Sinai), where according to tradition God gave Moses the Ten Commandments.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bible, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Human types, Mount Choreb, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mountains, Religious practices, Sinai

The tomb of Saint Catherine at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Frescoes, Human types, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Mountains, Prayer, Priests, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Sinai

Chapel of the Burning Bush of Moses at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Burning Bush of Moses (Mount Sinai), Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Mountains, Prayer, Priests, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Sinai

View of the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monumens, Egypt, Monasteries, Mountains, Pigrimages, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Sinai, Όρος Σινά

View of Lycabettus hill.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Lycabettus, Mountains, Views

The Royal Palace (today Parliament of Greece). In the background, Lycabettus hill.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek Parliament (formerly Royal Palace), Houses, Lycabettus, Mountains, Syntagma square, Views

Panoramic view of Athens from the Acropolis. On the left, the temple of Hephaestus at Theseion quarter. On the right, the cathedral of Athens (Metropolis) and the Royal Palace (today Parliament of Greece). In the background, Lycabettus hill.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cathedral Church of Athens (Metropolis), Central Greece, Churches, Greece, Greek Parliament (formerly Royal Palace), Houses, Lycabettus, Mountains, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Views

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Acropolis and Lycabettus hill, seen from Philopappos hill.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Lycabettus, Mountains, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Philopappos Hill / Mouseion Hill, Roman monuments

Temple of Hephaestus at Theseion quarter. In the background, on the right, Lycabettus Hill.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Lycabettus, Mountains, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Views

The mountains of Attica seen from the Acropolis.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Parthenon

The structure known as “drakospito” (ogre's house) on top of Mount Ocha, Euboea. 1. Interior view of the entrance and part of the façade. 2. Plan of the site. 3. Plan and section of the entrance.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Drakospita (Ogre houses of Euboea), Euboea, Greece, Karystos, Megalithic monuments, Mount Ocha, Mountains, Natural environment, Plans and drawings

The structure known as “drakospito” (ogre's house) on top of Mount Ocha, Euboea. According to the author, it was and ancient sanctuary. However, although animal remains and fragments of vases have been discovered on the site, to date the exact function of the building has not been established with certainty.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Drakospita (Ogre houses of Euboea), Euboea, Greece, Karystos, Megalithic monuments, Mount Ocha, Mountains, Natural environment

The house in Naousa in which British colonel Synge was held hostage in 1878, during the uprising of Thessaly and Macedonia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Greece, History, Houses, Imathia, Macedonia, Mount Vermio, Mountains, Naousa (Macedonia), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Synge affair (1878), Uprising in Thessaly (1878)

View of Mount Olympus from Naousa.

Tags: Greece, Imathia, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

View of Naousa and Mount Vermion.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Greece, Houses, Imathia, Katerini, Macedonia, Mount Vermio, Mountains, Views

View of Piraeus from the spot called “seat of Xerxes” on Mount Aigaleo.

Tags: Aigaleo, Animals, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Goats, Greece, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Piraeus, Port of Piraeus, Professions, Shepherds

View of Mount Olympus from the plain of Thessaly. Mount Olympus marked the northeastern border of Greece from the Treaty of Berlin (1878) to the Treaty of Bucarest (1913).

Tags: Greece, History, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Thessaly

Greek uprising in Thessaly, 1878: View of Mount Pelion from the gulf of Volos.

Tags: Boats and ships, Greece, Houses, Magnesia, Mountains, Pelion, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thessaly, Views, Volos

Landscape at the gulf of Corinth. In the distance, Mounts Parnassus and Helicon.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Corinthian gulf, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Houses, Human types, Irrigation systems, Mount Helicon, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views, Women

Mount Penteli seen from the hills of Marathon, 1870.

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

Mount Ida, or Psiloritis, Crete, 1869.

Tags: Crete, Greece, Mount Ida (Crete), Mountains, Natural environment

The monastery of Hagios Gerasimos at the feet of Mount Ainos, Cephalonia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cephalonia, Churches, Frankish architecture, Frankish monuments, Greece, Ionian islands, Monastery of Hagios Gerasimos (Cephalonia), Mount Ainos, Mountains, Religious practices

1. Map of the area around the church of Taxiarches on Mount Hellanion, Aegina island. The temple of Zeus Hellanius was built on that same site. 2, 3. View and reconstruction of the Hellenistic wall around the temple of Zeus Hellanius, Aegina island. 4, 5. Fragments of inscriptions from Mount Hellanion. 6. Plan of the temple of Aphaia.

Tags: Aegina, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Mount Hellanion (Aegina), Mountains, Plans and drawings, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Temple of Zeus Hellanius (Aegina), Walls

1-3. View, reconstruction and plan of the Cave of Heracles on Mount Cynthus, Delos island. 4-9. Architectural features of columns and part of wall surrounding the sanctuary of Zeus and Athena on Mount Cynthus, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cave of Heracles (Delos), Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Mount Cynthus (Delos), Mountains, Mythology, Plans and drawings, Sanctuary of Zeus and Athena (Delos), Walls

Mount Taygetus seen from Sparta.

Tags: Animals, Greece, Human types, Laconia, Mount Taygetus, Mountains, Natural environment, Oxen, Peloponnese, Sparta, Views

1. Plan of the stadium or hippodrome on Mount Lykaion, Arcadia. 2, 3. Remains of wall at the site. 4. One of the stone bassins of the cistern (rectangular room) at the northern end of the eastern side of the stadium.

Tags: Ancient stadiums, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cisterns / Reservoirs, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Mount Lykaion, Mountains, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Stadium of Mount Lykaion, Walls

Topographical map of the surrounding area of the stadium or hippodrome on Mount Lykaion, Arcadia.

Tags: Ancient stadiums, Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Greece, Maps, Mount Lykaion, Mountains, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Stadium of Mount Lykaion

View of Mount Parnassus.

Tags: Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment

The Corinthian gulf. On the left, Acrocorinth. On the right, the northern coast of the Peloponnese.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Animals, Corinthia, Corinthian gulf, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Greece, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Peloponnese

Oak tree from Mount Parnassus.

Tags: Boeotia, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Oak (Quercus), Phocis, Phthiotis

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