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Panoramic view of Istanbul, with Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia and the mosques of Sultan Ahmed I and Süleyman I.
View of Seraglio Point from the embassy of the Netherlands at Pera district.
View of Sinop at the Black Sea.
The temple of Hephaestus, Athens.
The fortress of Königstein at the town of Königstein, Saxony, Germany.
The summit of Jungfrau at the Swiss Alps.
Panoramic view of Athens from Areopagus. On the left, the temple of Hephaestus. On the right, the monument of Philopappus.
View of Yerevan, Armenia.
View of the old town of Kandahar, with the fortress of Shah Hussain Hotaki.
Top: Kiosk in a banana tree forest. Bottom: Map of Bandar Abbash and nearby islands at the straits of Hormuz, Iran.
Top: Kiosk in banana tree forest. Bottom: Map of Bandar Abbash and nearby islands at the straits of Hormuz, Iran.
Example of rural settlement in Russia.
The entrance to Moscow by the route of Saint Petersburg.
View of the first palace of the Tsars at Kremlin, Moscow. In the foreground one of the now-lost monasteries of Kremlin.
View of Moscow from Bersenevsk area.
View of the city of Tula, south of Moscow.
Burial mounds in the Russian steppe.
View of Novocherkassk, capital of the Cossacks of Don river.
Post office at southern Kuban, area inhabited by Tatar tribes, Russia.
Castle at the Black Sea. The author states that he saw this depiction on the reverse of an ancient Greek coin, discovered in the area.
View of the Cimmerian Bosporus or Strait of Kerch (where the Black Sea joins the Sea of Azov). On the bottom right, Taman volcano, surnamed Prekla (hell) by the locals.
View of Cimmerian Bosporus or Strait of Kerch withn the port of Kerch (anc. Panticapaeum), Crimea. In the background, the coast of Phanagoria, today Taman peninsula, Russia.
View of the palace of the Khans of Crimea at Bahçesaray, Crimea.
View of the bay of Balaklava near Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, the remains of the Genoese fortress.
View of the interior chambers of the Genoese castle near Sebastopol, Crimea.
View of Cape Fiolent between Sebastopol and Balaklava, Crimea.
View of Snake Island at the Black Sea. According to the myth, this is were Thetis took the bodies of Achilles and Patroclus.
The junction of the Bosporus and Black Sea. On the hill, Yoros castle, also known as Genoese castle, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus.
View of the village of Marathon.
View of the plain of Marathon with the Tumulus of the Athenians.