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Buildings in Sawakin (Suakin) - north-eastern Sudan - The Quarantine Office. Date: circa 1925
Turkish house with CumbaTraditional Turkish wooden house. The upper rooms overhanging the street are called Cumbas, designed in order to catch any breath of air in the heat of the summer
Damascus, Syria - Road close to the Umayyad Mosque ( The Great Mosque of Damascus ). Date: circa 1910s
Sfax, Tunisia - Rue de la RepubliqueThe Rue de la Republique with the British Vice Consulate at Sfax, Tunisia. The Consulate is right next door to a general store, selling pottery, overcoats and flat caps
Minieh, EgyptA small town in Egypt - Minieh
A traditional Jumba house - IstanbulA traditional Jumba house - Constantinople (Istanbul)
Eskisehir, Turkey - seen from the west. In Latin it was known as Dorylaeum. Founded by the Phrygians in c.1000 BC. Famous for Meerschaum stone
A street in Buyukdere, Istanbul, Turkey. Old traditional Ottoman houses at the end of the Sultunate. The upper rooms overhanging the street are called Cumbas
Water transportation - Baku, AzerbaijanWater carriers - barrels mounted on mules transporting fresh water through the streets in Baku, Azerbaijan
Metelin, GreeceMetelin, Lesbos, Greece - The Street of the Mosque - after the Island was handed back to Greece from Turkey
Yemen - Hodeidah - English Consulate in the old Turkish Quarter of the city with its fine Ottoman-influenced architecture (note the cumba)
Constantinople - Street scene with cumbasStreet scene in Istanbul with cumbas
The opening of Parliament - ConstantinopleThe opening of the Parliament - Constantinople around the time of the revolution and the declaration of the new constiution