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Silk market before the mosque of Mamluk Sultan al-Ghuri.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Children, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activity, Egypt, Equids, Funerary monuments, Horses, Mamluk monuments, Mausoleums, Silk market (Cairo), Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Sultan al-Ghuri Complex (Cairo)
Streetlet at Bayn al-Qasrayn quarter, Cairo.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Bayn al-Qasrayn (Cairo), Beggars, Cairo, Camels, Carpets, Children, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Egypt, Equids, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Fruit, Hookahs, Houses, Human types, Shops, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
A raft crosses Tigres river at Mosul, Irak.
Tags: Animals, Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Camels, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, French, Houses, Irak, Mosul, Professions, Rafts, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Tigres river
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
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