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The commercial street (Socratous street) in the medieval city of Rhodes.

A café in the port of Rhodes.

Waterfront café in Patras.

Interior of Turkish coffee house.

Storyteller in a coffeehouse in Istanbul.

Snapshot from everyday life ouside a coffehouse on the shore of the Golden Horn.

Older Turkish man in coffeehouse in Kaşimpaşa

Turkish coffeehouse in Kaşimpaşa.

Scene in coffehouse of Istanbul.

Cafes in Damascus.

Coffeehouse “Aphroditi' in Livadeia.

The sea walls and the coffehouse at Fanar Gate (today Balat quarter).

The quay of Eyüp on the Golden Horn.

Coffehouses near the Gate of Saint Romanus (Top Kapısı).

Interior of coffee house in Istanbul.

Scene from the author's journey from Mylasa (today Milas) to Halicarnassus (today Bodrum).

Caravan.

The interior of a café at Tophane square.

Café at Eminönü. In the background the Tower of Beyazit, also called Serasker Tower, the Mosque of Sultan Suleiman I and the Valens aqueduct.

A café on the Bosphorus, somewhere near Üsküdar. In the background the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque.

The bazaar of Athens. On the forefront, on the right, an emancipated African slave. On the doorway, the owner of the coffeehouse who is brigning a tray with coffee to the Ottoman governor Disdar Aga. Disdar Aga is sitting on the stairs, dressed in red, and next to him sits another Turkish aga. Standing at the entrance of the coffeehouse, the Greek voivode (governor) of Salamis island, who is conversing a Greek Baratario (protegé of a foreign power). At the centre of the picture, three Turkish women covered with long white veils. According to Edward Dodwell's description, the rest of the women depicted are Arvanite. Standing, on the right, a devout Muslim in green costume, an indication that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.