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View of Koroni from the Venetian castle.

View of the Venetian castle of Koroni.

View of the Castle of Pylos (Niokastro) and Bay of Navarino with Sphacteria island.

View of Gytheio. During the Ottoman rule, the entire city, and not only the islet outside Gytheio, was called Marathonisi.

View of Corinth, the Isthmus of Corinth and Acrocorinth. In the foreground the Venetian fleet sailing the Corinthian Gulf.

View of Chalkis and its surroundings.

View of Tenedos (Bozcaada).

Plans of catacombs in Alexandria together with floor plan of fortress in Nicopolis, and map of the isle Latonia, close to Rosetta.

View of the ruins of the fortress of Babylon, in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. View of the Pyramids of Dahshour, Saqqara and Giza.

Plan and view of the building called Hall of Joseph at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo.

View, sections, and plans of Joseph's Well (Bir Yusuf) at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo.

View of Tenedos (Bozcaada).

The Yedikule fortress. In the background Hagia Sophia and the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I.

The ruins of the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia, and the Catalan castle.

The entrance to Yedikule fortress.

View of the port and city of Corfu, from the north. In the background the Old Fortress (Palaiokastro). On the right the New Fortress.

View of Assos with the Venetian castle, Cephalonia.

View of the city of Zakynthos. In the background the Venetian castle at Bochali.

View of Chora of Cythera. Towards the end of the settlement the Venetian Castle of Cythera.

View of Büyükdere and the entrance to the Black Sea. On the right the Anadolu Kavağı and the Yoros Castle.

View of the Dardanelles. On the right, the Kilitbahir Castle. On the left the Sultaniye Castle.

View of Acronauplia and Palamidi from Arvanitia.

View of the village and castle of Şalima in Lebanon.

Map showing the range of the cannons situated at the fortress of Palaiokastro and the walls of Heraklion.

The fortress of Palaiokastron, west of Heraklion.

The coast at the castle of Mylopotamos.

The coast in front of the Castle (Fortezza) of Rethymno.

Map of the city and castle (Fortezza) of Rethymno.

The beach of Apocoronas with the castle of the same name.

The port of Souda.