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

The Greek Parliament (former royal palace). In the background Mount Lycabettus. On the right Mount Hymettus.

View of the Obelisk of Theodosius I on the Hippodrome of Cosntantinople and the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I.

View of the ruins of Alexandria Troas (today Eski Stambul). In the background Tenedos (Bozcaada) island.

The putative Tomb of Aias in Intepe (anc. Rhoiteion), in Asia Minor.

View of the roman baths of Varius in Ephesus, Asia Minor.

Map of Cephalonia. Plan of the Fortress of Agios Georgios.

Map of Zadar in Croatia.

View of Nafplio.

View of Chandax.

Ottomans supervising slaves, taken captive in the war, during agricultural work.

View of Ramla, Israel.

View of Latrun in Israel. Crusader's castle on the foreground.

The march of the Sultan from the Palace to the mosque on the day of Bayram. Frontispiece of the first volume: The march of Ottoman officials.

Alaca Imaret or Isak Pasa Mosque in Thessaloniki.

Horses of the Ottoman cavalry disembark in Thessaloniki after the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From German newspaper of the era.

Bashi-bazouk camp outside the walls of Thessaloniki at the time of Herzegovina uprising. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876.

Central street in Thessaloniki. From: Marius Bernard: Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie. De Salonique à Jérusalem, Paris, Henri Laurent, 1899.

View of the Castle of Komárno (Slovakia).

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlier de Pinon, and their escorts on their way to Mount Sinai.

Jacob Breuning his companion Carlier de Pinon, and their escort, a local interpreter and a Janissary, on their way to Tripoli, Lebanon.

Scene from the author's journey from Saint Petersburg to Odessa.

Tatars of Crimea.

Nomad merchants of Crimea.

The author meets inhabitants of Taganrog in Russia.

The siege of the Palatinate in modern-day Germany by Louis IV's army in the late 17th century.

Triumphal parade of a Christian man converted to Islam.

Sipahi, cavalry soldier.

Title page.

The Sultan rides to the mosque to pray on a Friday, escorted by a formal procession.