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Muslim wedding in the Ottoman Empire: The giving away of the bride.

Valide Dam at Belgrade Forest, on the northwestern coast of the Bosporus.

Leisure scene on Aegina island. In the background, the temple of Aphaia.

Score of Turkish traditional music.

Silhouette portrait of a man, possibly the traveller Count Louis-François de Ferrières-Sauveboeuf. Excerpt from aria written for male voice.

Ottoman (Muslim) funeral. Ottoman (Muslim) wedding. In the distance, the field of Büyükdere on the European shore of the Bosporus.

Theatre production at Hanoi (today in Vietnam) in the presence of the king of Tonkin and his court.

Top: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) exits the palace. Bottom: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) leaves for war.

Leisure scene at the streets of Istanbul during the Bayram feast.

Festivities at the port of Istanbul, to celebrate the construction of a new ship.

The Bey (Ottoman official) of Upper Egypt , enters in Cairo.

Celebration at the streets of Visapur, India, for the wedding of the daughter of the local governor.

A woman is thrown into her husband's funeral pyre, India.

Music and lines of traditional song of Arcadia.

Lyrics of klepht song of Arcadia.

Scores of love songs from Athens.

Two different versions of Greek love song from Izmir.

Music and lines of the song of “Kyra Frosyni”, from Epirus.

Song in honour of Sultan Selim (not specified which of the Sultans named Selim).

Different versions of syrtos dance.

Syrto from Istanbul. Score of religious hymn.

Dance scenes from ancient Greek vases and reliefs 6. Greek dancer from Epirus in traditional costume (from the edition by J. H. Hobhouse, 1813).

Dance scenes from ancient Greek vases and reliefs

Dance in Greece.

Greek traditional dance.

A Greek musician.

View of the ancient theare of Syracuse, before it was excavated.

1. Landscape near Piazza Armerina, Sicily. 2. Landscape near Pietrapercia, Sicily.

Mantinada, (rhyming couplet), in the dialect of Sfakia.