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The remaining part of the colonnade in Soloi of Cilicia (later Pompeiopolis), seen from the theatre. The columns framed the street leading from the city to the port.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Cilicia, Human types, Natural environment, Pack animals, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Soloi of Cilicia / mod. Mezitli, Turkey, Views

Ancient monument in Ayas, Cilicia. Ancient ruins in the background.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Ayaş / anc. Elaeussa Sebaste, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Turkey, Views

View of the Stadium of Aphrodisias in Caria.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Caria, Costume - Hats and headwear, Geyre / anc. Aphrodisias, Human types, Modes of transport, Pack animals, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Stadium of Aphrodisias, Stadiums, Turkey, Views

The remains of the Ancient Theatre of Tripolis of Phrygia, in modern-day Yenicekent, Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Tripolis of Phrygia, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Tents, Turkey, Views, Yenicekent / anc. Tripolis of Phrygia

Travertine terraces in Pamukkale.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Camels, Denizli, Human types, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Pamukkale / anc. Hierapolis, Travel, Turkey, Views

View of Kümbet village.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Carriages, Cemeteries, Equids, Funerary monuments, Human types, Kümbet, Modes of transport, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Turkey, Views

Forest in the region called Kosref Pasha Khan, near Afyon Karahisar.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Equids, Human types, Kosref Pasha Khan, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Travel, Turkey, Views, Women

Natural rock formations in the village of Kümbet, Asia Minor.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Equids, Human types, Kümbet, Midas valley (Midas Şehri), Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Turkey, Views

View of the rock-cut monuments in Doganli valley (today Yazılıkaya) near Eski Sehir. This ancient site is also called Midas City due to its plethora of Phrygian monuments, and forms part of the larger territory of the Phrygian valley.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Equids, Human types, Midas valley (Midas Şehri), Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian monuments, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Turkey, Views, Yazılıkaya

View of Doganli valley (today Yazılıkaya) near Eski Sehir. This ancient site is also called Midas City due to its plethora of Phrygian monuments, and forms part of the Phrygian valley.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bovids, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Human types, Midas valley (Midas Şehri), Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Turkey, Views, Yazılıkaya

Side view of the rock-cut monument known as “small Yazılıkaya” in Doganli valley (today Yazılıkaya) near Eski Sehir. This ancient site is also called Midas City due to its plethora of Phrygian monuments, and forms part of the Phrygian valley.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Human types, Midas valley (Midas Şehri), Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian monuments, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Turkey, Views, Yazılıkaya

View of the rock-cut monument known as “small Yazılıkaya” in Doganli valley (today Yazılıkaya) near Eski Sehir. This ancient site is also called Midas City due to its plethora of Phrygian monuments, and forms part of the Phrygian valley.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Human types, Midas valley (Midas Şehri), Natural environment, Pack animals, Phrygian monuments, Phrygian valley (Frig vadisi), Rivers, Turkey, Yazılıkaya

General view of the the city of Sögüt, birthplace of Sultan Osman I, in Bithynia.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Human types, Natural environment, Pack animals, Söğüt / gr. Thebasion, Turkey, Views

General view of Iznik (Nicaea).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Funerary monuments, Human types, Iznik / gr. Nicaea, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Nicaea, Turkey, Views

The sarcophagus of Nicaea, on the outskirts of the city.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Funerary monuments, Human types, Iznik / gr. Nicaea, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Nicaea, Turkey, Views

Landscap at lake Sapanca (Boane) outside Izmit.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bithynia, Carriages, Equids, Lakes, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Sapanca / gr. Boane, Travel, Turkey

View of the bridge of Justinian or Sangarius Bridge. The bridge is situated on Sangarius (Sakarya) river, near Sabanca lake, outside Adapazari, on the route from Iznik to Izmit. Today the bed of Sangarius lies to the east of the bridge, which only covers the smaller tributary Sark Deresi river (anc. Melas). On the foreground, the now-lost triumphal arch at the western end of the bridge.

City gate of Izmir.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Cemeteries, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Gates, Human types, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Modes of transport, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Pack animals, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views, Women

Paul Lucas and his travelling companions fend off a band of Turkoman bandits near Karapınar, Asia Minor.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bandits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Karapınar, Natural environment, Pack animals, Paul Lucas, Travel, Turkey, Turkomans, Weapons

Reaping tools. Plowing with device drawn by oxen, Eastern Thrace, possibly Lüleburgaz area.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Agricultural tools, Animals, Bovids, Lüleburgaz / byz. Arcadiopolis, Oxen, Pack animals, Plowing, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Lake Stymphalia in Corinthia.

Tags: Animals, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Greece, Horses, Human types, Lake Stymphalia, Lakes, Natural environment, Pack animals, Peloponnese, Views

Athens from the feet of Lycabettus Hill.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Pack animals, Views, 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.

Town and harbour of Corfu. From the island of Vido.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Boats and ships, Bovids, Corfu, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Ports, Vido (Corfu), Views

Inn at Corinth.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Children, Corinth, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Inns, Modes of transport, Pack animals, Peloponnese, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Yörüks and Zeibeks from Ödemiş, Asia Minor, near ancient Hypaepa.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, Human types, Ionia, Lydia, Ödemiş, Pack animals, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Yörüks, Zeibeks

Camel and baboon from Damietta.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Egypt, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals

Elephant from Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Elephants, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals

Golden Gate or Axios (Vardar) Gate in Thessaloniki. From: E. M. Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Esprit-Marie Cousinéry, Golden Gate – Gate of Axios (Thessaloniki), Greece, Macedonia, Merchants / Traders, Pack animals, Roman monuments, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Views

The port of Suakin in the Red Sea, modern-day Sudan. Ford on the Nile near Atbarah, modern-day Sudan.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Atbarah, Boats and ships, Camels, Lighthouses, Modes of transport, Nile river, Pack animals, Ports, Red Sea, Rivers, Suakin, Sudan, Views

View of Mount Athos.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Natural environment, Pack animals, Views, Weapons

Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Holy Land, Horses, Jaffa Gate (Jerusalem), Jerusalem, Jewish monuments, Judaea, Modes of transport, Pack animals, Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem), Views

Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Judaea, Pack animals, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Soldiers, Via Dolorosa (Jerusalem), Views, Weapons, Women

The Gate of Damascus in Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Gate of Damascus (Jerusalem), Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaea, Modes of transport, Pack animals, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Sakka, itinerant water seller.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Horses, Human types, Pack animals, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Water sellers

View of Mount Ararat.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Mount Ararat / Ağrı Dağı, Pack animals, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views

Remains of the portico of the reservoir of the Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) at the foot of Lycabettus hill. Dairy farm belonging to Arvanites. A woman is milking her goat to make kaymak. A man has come on horseback to buy dairy products. A monk of Hagioi Asomatoi monastery is going to town with his donkey which is carrrying olives and wine. Mount Hymettus and Kaisariani monastery in the background.

The arch of the Sergii at Pula, Croatia. Peasants of Slavic ethnicity are walking by with their ox cart. James Stuart, Nicholas Revett and their assistant are on top of the arch, making drawings. On the left a man informs the women gathered that the travellers are searching the Arch of the Sergii for treasures.

View of the temple of Rome and Augustus and the adjacent temple of Diana in Pula, Croatia. Between the two temples is situated the Communal Palace of Pula and the city prison. Next to the building, a guard and locals who are playing a game of marbles. In the middle ground, a soldier of Slavic ethnicity conversing with a young woman. On the left, a Polish woman with her donkey and small dog.

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