Baghdad Collection (page 4)

General Sir John Nixon / Stamp
Lieutenant-General SIR JOHN ECCLES NIXON (1857 - 1921) Senior commander of the British Indian Army who gave the orders for the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during

Iraq - Parade of captured Turkish Prisoners, Baghdad
Turkish prisoners captured by the Allies, are marched through Baghdad, Iraq. The left hand section of this card depicts a British soldier raising the Union Jack flag over the city

Samsun - Camel train leaves for Baghdad
Camel train leaving for Baghdad from Samsun, Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital of Samsun Province and important Port. Former Greek colony (BC). Captured by Seljuks in 1200

Gufas and bellums on the Tigris
Gufa and Bellum boats awaiting hire on the River Tigris, which splits Baghdad, Iraq, in half. A gufa is a circular boat propelled by a pole or single paddle, rather like a coracle

Young storks and parent - Baghdad, Iraq
Fledgling storks - Baghdad, Iraq. It is seen as very fortunate across the Mediterranean and Middle East if a stork lands (and subsequently nests) on your roof!

Ancient Iraqi Cannon
An ancient Iraqi Cannon (Abu Khazama) captured by the British in Baghdad

Mirjan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
The Mirjan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. On the road in the foreground a traffic official direct what little traffic there is! The sign to Keep on the Left is a direct indication of the British

High Commissioners Yacht, River Tigris, Iraq
The British High Commissioners Yacht on the River Tigris, Iraq

Konya, Turkey - Panoramic view to the North
Panoramic view of Konya looking north with inset of the Railway Hotel on the Konya to Baghdad railway line. Konya (Turkey) was also known as Koniah, Konieh, Konia, Qunia and Iconium

Arab Weaving
Charlemagne receives gifts of fabrics from Haroun-al- Raschid, Caliph of Baghdad

Source of Tigris
The river Tigris (Shatt Dijla in Arabic) has its source in a lake in Kurdistan, whence it flows into Iraq to join the Euphrates, passing through Mosul and Baghdad

Baghdad C18
General view of the city

Iraq / Samarra / Tigris 1846
Samarra: on the Tigris, above Baghdad

Iraq Baghdad
Mosque and market-place in the old city

Rhazes in Baghdad Lab
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya RAZI, known as RHAZES in the west : Persian physician and chemist, leader of Islamic medicine, here depicted in his laboratory at Baghdad

IRAQ / BAGHDAD / 1857
A view of Baghdad town, showing camels, horses and people milling about the streets

Weber / Oberon / Liebig 1
Act one, scene six : Huon and his squire Sherasmin asleep in Oberons bower - Huon has a vision of Reiza, daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad

Baghdad / Plan 1719
Baghdad: plan of the city walls, with the River Tigris in front

Baghdad / River 1918
Baghdad: view of the river

Baghdad / River Houses
Baghdad: view of the river line of houses from the British Residence to Haji Selim s

Ctesiphon / Iraq
The gigantic vaulted hall (the Taq Kisra) at Ctesiphon, an ancient Parthian city located southeast of modern Baghdad. It is traditionally recognised as the palace of Khosrow I

Charlemagne and Caliph
Charlemagne at his court at Aachen receives gifts from Haroun al-Raschid, Caliph of Baghdad

March to Baghdad 1917
British troops on the long march through torrid heat to Baghdad, the Ottoman Empires southern capital, which was taken in March 1917

Racial / Arabs / Syria 19C
A man from SYRIA, a woman from DAMASCUS, SYRIA a man from BAGHDAD, IRAQ

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