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

View of Tarabya, Istanbul.

Panoramic view of Istanbul, from the mosque of Suleiman I to Eyüp district.

Leisure scene at one of the fields where the Sultan used to hunt. In the background, a storyteller entertaining the public.

View of Istanbul from Pera. In the background, the mosque of Suleiman I and Valens aqueduct.

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

View of Aleppo, Syria.

View of the village of Selçuk near ancient Ephesus. In the background, Selçuk (Ayasulluk) castle.

View of the town of Neustadt, to the south of Vienna (today Wiener Neustadt). The town was one of the main bastions of defence against the Ottomans. During the Second Siege of Vienna.

View of Pest.

View of Smederevo, Serbia.

View of Tokaj, Hungary.

View of Szolnok, Hungary. In the foreground local inhabitants prepare for to fight against the Ottomans (Second Siege of Vienna).

View of Veszprem, Hungary.

View of Lenti, Hungary. View of Zalaszentgrót, Hungary.

View of Edremit, Asia Minor (probably imaginary depiction).

View of Ramla, Israel, with some of the main sights of the city. G. Ruins of aqueduct, probably of the Roman period. A. Monastery of Saint George. B. The White Mosque, built in the Ummayad era; in the 16th and 17th centuries it was believed that this was initially a church dedicated to the Forty Martyrs of Nablus. D. The house of the province governor.

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

The temple of Hephaestus, Athens.

The vacation cottage of Johann Jacob Rieter, Swiss manufacturer of woolen textiles.

Woman from Little Russia, a historical geographic region, today part of Ukraine.

Family of Tatar nomads spends the night at the steppe.

Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.

Soldiers and guilds parade during the festivities which customarily took place when an Ottoman prince was born. The author had occasion to watch such a parade during his stay in Aleppo.

Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.

Celebration of the feast of Huli in Kabul. The feast, a remnant of pagan cults, lasted the two days of the full moon of February. On the second day, the inhabitants of Kabul would gather at the central square and destroy a gigantic effigy made especially for this festivity. The feast closed as a child, symbol of the new-born god, shot his arrows at the giant's heart.