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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
Leisure scene at the location of Sweet Waters of Asia.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Küçüksu fountain (Küçüksu Çeşmesi), Leisure, Leisure spaces, Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain (Mihrişah Valide Sultan Çeşmesi), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Asia / Göksu Deresi / byz. Potamion, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Women
Ottoman Muslim cemetery.
Tags: Animals, Cemeteries, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman cemeteries, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Turks
Turkish women in 18th century costume having tea in their private quarters.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Houses, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Istanbul, Jewellery, Musical instruments, Servants, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, 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 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
View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea. Seated on the ground is Disdar Aga,the governor of the fortress of Acropolis. He has just been surprised by another member of the guard as he was sipping a glass of wine which he took from the travellers.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Ottoman officials, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turks
A European ambassador appears before the Sultan.
Tags: Ambassadors, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Furniture, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Turks
A European ambassador has dinner with the Grand Vizier.
Tags: Ambassadors, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Ṭuğrā (Seals – signatures of the Sultan) (Seals – signatures of the Sultan), Turkey, Turks
Roman aqueduct on Mount Kastron, Samos island. The aqueduct was connected to the Eupalinian aqueduct or Tunnel of Eupalinos, near the port of Pythagoreion.
Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Eupalinian aqueduct, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Mount Kastro, Natural environment, Pythagoreio, Roman aqueduct of Samos, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Samos, Turks
View of Istanbul from Pera. Valens aqueduct in the background. To the left of the aqueduct, the mosques of Suleiman I and Ahmed I, and Hagia Sophia.
Tags: Animals, Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Golden Horn, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosque of Suleiman I / Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii), Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Valens Aqueduct (Bozdoğan Kemeri), Views, Women
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