Ottomans - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.

Dancing dervishes of the Mevlevi Order, in the Tekes of Pera (Istanbul).

Pompey's Pillar, also known as Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Interior view of the Temple of Ramses II, also known as the Great Temple, in Abu Simbel, in Egypt.

Title page. Sultan Mahmud II returns to the Palace from the Mosque.

A café on the Bosphorus, somewhere near Üsküdar. In the background the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque.

View of the port of Üsküdar.

View of the port of Istanbul, on the western shores of the Golden Horn. On the left mosque of Sultan Suleiman. On the right the mosque of Sultan Mehmet II. In the background the Kemerburgaz aqueduct.

The Fountain of Sultan Ahmet III. On the left, the Topkapi Palace.

The entrance of the Imperial armoury, at Tophane.

View of the New Mosque in Eminönü.

View of Eminönü. In the foreground the New Mosque. On the left Hagia Sophia, and on the right the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I.

Wealthy Ottoman couple in a street market or bazaar in Istanbul.

View of Istanbul from Surmeli, district north of Ortaköy. In the background the Galata Tower and the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I.

The north-eastern entrance of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. On the right the Soğukçeşme street and part of the walls of Topkapi Palace.

North-eastern view of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. In the background the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I.

View of the port of Tophane. On the right the Ottoman imperial armory. On the left the Mosque of Kılıç Ali Paşa.

The Muslim cemetery of Pera (Beyoğlu). The cemetery started off today's Taxim square, and eventually reached the Bosporus through the neighborhoods of Gümüşsuyu and Fındıklı.