Architecture and built environment - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Top: Landscape at Lefkada. Bottom: House at Cephalonia, possibly the house of Countess Valsami.

Part of the fortifications of the castle of Lëkurësi at Saranda, Albania (August 1839).

View of Varna in the Crimean War. In the background, the ships of the British fleet.

View of the harbour of Balaklava close to Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, on the right, the ruins of the Genoese castle. On the left, ships of the British fleet.

The monastery of Saint George at Balaklava, close to Sebastopol. In the background, cape Aya.

Landscape at Inkerman. In the foreground Chornaya river. In the background, the Byzantine fortress of Kalamita.

View of Sebastopol from the British camp during the Crimean war.

View of Sebastopol.

Aqueduct on Chornaya river, position held by the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Crimean war.

Cemetery at Sebastopol. This spot was highly important to the British forces in the Crimean war.

View of Sebastopol in 1855, after its siege by the British army during the Crimean war.

Sebastopol in 1855.

The Mamluk mosque of Sultan Hassan as seen from the mosque of Mehmed Ali, Cairo. In the foreground, part of the alabaster exterior of the mosque.

Fountain of the inner court of the mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo.

Tombs of Mamluk Sultans, Cairo.

View of Yafffa from the west.

View of the settlement of Al-Jib (ancient Gibeon) in Palestine.

View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. In the background the mosque of Dome of the Rock.

Mount Zion, Jerusalem. In the foreground, part of the enclosure of the mosque of Dome of the Rock. In the background, on the left, the minaret of the pasha's house.

The mosque of Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem.

The “spring minbar” of the mosque of Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (Mamluk period).

Mosque of Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem.

Façade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

The walls of Jerusalem seen from the garden of Gethsemane.

Bethany from the east.

Mar-Saba monastery close to Bethlehem, Palestine.

View of Hebron. In the background, the Herodian building housing the Cave of the Patriarchs, resting place of Abraham, Sarah, Isaak, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah according to the Jewish and Muslim traditions.

View of Nablus, Palestine.

The Straight Street (Via Recta) of Damascus, built in the Roman era.

View of the northern wall of the temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon, from the interior of the site.

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