History (560 Subjects)
Panoramic view of Thessaloniki during the Great Fire of 1890. From The Graphic, 1890.
Composition of scenes from the rise and fall of Sabbatai Zevi, the rabi who claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews until he was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman Sultan (17th century). Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the Messiah. Sabbatai Zevi enthroned by his followers. Ottoman soldiers arrest Sabbatai Zevi in the Dardanelles. From: J. Chr. Wagner, Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente, Augsburg, 1684.
Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. From The Illustrated London News, May 1876.
Mehme Rifa Pasha, general governor of Thessaloniki, deposed after the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From Le Monde Illustré (1876).
Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. Portrait of murdered consul of France Jules Moulin. From Le Journal Illustré, May 1876.
Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876.
Saatli Mosque in Thessaloniki, outside which the murder of the consuls took place (1876). House of the French consul. Greek church where the funerary service for German consul Abbot took place. House of German consul Abbot. House of the Governor or Dioikeτerion.