Region Collection (page 8)

Greece. Tiryns. Cyclopean wall
Greece. Tiryns. Mycenaean city (3rd millennium B.C.). Cyclopean wall (1400-1200 B.C.). Peloponnese

The Archangel Gabriel gives the Qur an to Muhammad on Mount
Revelation of Tanail. The Archangel Gabriel gives the Qur an to Muhammad on Mount Hira during a battle. Ottoman miniature. 15th century. Topkapi Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Bronze helmet of Corinthian style. 6th century B. C. Olympia
Bronze helmet of Corinthian style. 6th century b.c. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Bronze helmet of Corinthian type. 5th century B. C. Olympia A
Bronze helmet of Corinthian type. 5th century b.C. Votive offering in the Sanctuary of Zeus by Hieron, tyrant of Syracuse

Germany Reoccupiers Saar
The region of the Saar votes overwhelmingly in a plebiscite to return to Germany - it had been administered by the League of Nations since 1919, the french controlling mines. Date: 1935

Railway Station, Wearhead, County Durham
Railway Station, Wearhead, Bishop Auckland, near Cowshill, County Durham, England. British Railways NE Region (Formally North Eastern Railway)

Scythian art
Terminal with a Griffin Head. 7th c. BC. Bronze and iron. Proceeds from Kelermess Barrow No. 4 (Kuban Region), Ukraine. Scythian Art. Jewelry. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Mashonaland Prisoners
Black and white lantern Slide of Mashonaland Prisoners - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

A room with a low ceiling and dirt floor
Black and white. A room with a low ceiling and dirt floor. The stone walls (partly in ruins) have been carved decoratively and there are several doorways

Railway station building, Liepaja, Western Latvia
Railway station building, Liepaja (Libau), Kurzeme Region, Western Latvia

Industrial view of Resicza (Resita), Romania
Industrial view of Resicza (Resita), Banat Region, Western Romania. Date: late 19th century

Two rival designs for the Map of Europe, WW1
Two rival designs for the Map of Europe at the start of the First World War. Above: a new map as probably already designed by the Hohenzollern map specialist in Berlin

Map of the Black Sea and the Crimea, 1854
Engraving of a map of the area around the Black Sea with the borders between Turkey and Russia, showing the disputed Crimea region. Date: 1854

Vietnam - Hmong Husband and wife - Lao Cai - Chinese border
Hmong Husband and wife from Lao Cai - a province of the mountainous Northwest region of Vietnam bordering the province of Yunnan in China. Date: circa 1910s

Shanghai District, China - Travelling by wheelbarrow across fields Date: circa 1910s

The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou, Ivory Coast
The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou (Bonduku, Bontuku) a town in the Bondoukou Department of Ivory Coast, located in the Zanzan Region. Date: circa 1910s

The Swiss Cantons and shield flag of Switzerland Date: circa 1910s

Woman from the Oran Province, Algeria
Woman from the Tafraoui region in the south of the Oran Province in north western Algeria. Date: 1906

The border between Vietnam and China - Tunghing / Moncay
The border between Vietnam and China - Mong Cai of Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam, opposite Dongxing city of Chinas Guangxi Autonomous Region. Date: circa 1910s

Milking Boy - Grindelwald, Switzerland - with his own milking stool, pre-attached by leather straps to his behind! Date: circa 1910s

Captain Angus Buchanan on a camel in Mesopotamia
Captain Angus Buchanan who led an expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, Crossing the Great Sahara, records the 3500 mile journey

Eritrea - Nefasit and winding road from Asmara
Nefasit, a small town in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea (formerly Italian East Africa). View across to the winding road that starts at Asmara. Date: 1930s

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Large Ivory tusk from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Large Ivory tusk, weighing over 200lbs from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Girls from Kachin State
Two ethnic Kachin Girls from the Northern Kachin State in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Date: circa 1910s

Young Man and three Nung Women, Vietnam
Quang Yen in the Quang Ninh province in the northeastern region of Vietnam - A Young Man and three Nung (Nong) Women. Date: 1910s

Ruins of Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru
Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site in southern Peru some 60 kilometers northwest of the city of Cusco

Largo das Portas de Moura, Evora, Portugal
Largo das Portas de Moura - Fountain in the Moorish Maidens Gate Square in Evora, Portugal. A renaissance work of 1556, attributed to the architect Diogo de Torralva

Map of the McMurdo Sound region

CHINA. Jiayuguan. The Silk Road. Gobi Desert. Jiayu Fort

NFS (London Region) Fire Force 34 Control Unit, WW2
There were five Fire Force areas in the London Region of the NFS, Nos 34 to 38. Each Fire Force area had its own local headquarters and Control Unit with dedicated staff

NFS firefighter under-running a fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of under-running (which removes the water from inside the hose) prior to rolling the hose up after use

NFS (London Region No 5) firewomans uniform, WW2
Created in 1941, the NFS nationalised the British Fire Service and split the UK into different regions. Seen here is a London firewoman in the NFS uniform

Latvia - Liepaja - The Nicolai Gymnasium
Liepaja (Libau) - a city in western Latvia on the Baltic sea and the administrative center of Liepaja district. The largest city in the Kurzeme (Courland)

Arnaut soldier, Ottoman Empire
An Arnaut Soldier, viewed from the rear, with a musket slung over his shoulder. He carries a tobacco pipe with a very long stem in his right hand

Tizi-Ouzou - Algeria
The Djebel Beloua mountain/hill, with houses on its slopes at Tizi-Ouzou, the capital of the Kabylie region of Northern Algeria, home to the Kabyle people. Date: circa 1910s

African man with lip plate
An African man from the Zambezi region in Africa, with an extraordinary lip plate, haning from the top of his mouth below his chin. He also wears a series of metal rings around his ankles

Abidjan exposition poster
Poster advertising the 4th Abidjan exposition from 4 to 11 February 1951 in the Cote d Ivoire capital city in the French colonial region of Africa known at this time as the Afrique Occidentale

Zonguldak, Turkey - Railway at Mine
A small train in operation at the coal mines of Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre

Zonguldak, Turkey - Miners
Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre. Miners and general staff of the Goelik Coalmine

Gabon - Africa - Woman with Scarification
A Woman from Sibiti, Gabon - part of the Bakota (or Kota) - a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of the country

Namaltoyan Girl - Apayao - Philippines
Namaltoyan Girl - Apayao - Mountain Province, Philippines. Apayao is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon

Philippines - Igorote Chieftain. Igorot are the people of the Cordillera region, on the Philippino Island of Luzon. The smaller group of the Igorot live in the east and north of the Island

The Yacht Eira in the Arctic, 1881
Engraving showing the yacht Eira, used by Benjamin Leigh Smith, to explore the Arctic region around Franz Joseph Land and the ocean North of Russia, 1881-1882

The Radziwill Palace, Berlin, 1878
Engraving of the Radziwill Palace, Berlin; the place used for the Berlin Congress of 1878. Here, British, Russian and Turkish leaders met to discuss their conflicting interests in the Turkish region

Hotel Sud Americano, Los Andes, Chile, South America
Hotel Sud Americano, Los Andes, Valparaiso region, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1908

Gold washing at Tucapel, Bio Bio, Chile, South America
Gold washing or sluicing at Tucapel, Bio Bio region, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1900

Lake Llanquihue, Puerto Varas, Chile, South America
Lake Llanquihue with jetty and steamships in Puerto Varas, Los Lagos region, Chile, South America. Date: 1917

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