Turkish Collection (page 14)

Two Turkish Women - one from Istanbul, one from the country. Date: 1821

The Kiosk of Mustafa Pasha - Fourth Court - Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey Date: circa 1930s

A Turkish Kadin (Wife) in her indoor costume. Date: 1802

The Sultan Valide - the title held by the " legal mother" of a ruling Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Date: 1572

The Kislar Agha - Chief Black Eunuch. Date: 1802

Procession on the Feast of Bayram - Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1819

The First Court of the Seraglio, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1819

Women from the Island of Naxos and Marmara Date: 1821

Istanbul, Turkey - over Bosphorus toward Suleimaniye Mosque
Istanbul, Turkey - view over the Bosphorus toward the striking profile of the dome and minarets of the Suleimaniye Mosque at Constantinople, Turkey. Date: circa 1940s

Turkey work upholstery
One of a pair of beech chairs with spiral turned legs and front stretchers, with original Turkey work upholstery depicting stylised flowers, and modern fringing, made in England c.1685. Date: c.1685

Chania (Kania) Mosque, Old Town, Crete. Date: circa 1920

Renaissance costume, from left to right: German townspeople (man and woman) circa 1570, Spanish man circa 1580, French woman circa 1590, Italian woman circa 1590, Hungarian couple, Turkish man

Selimiye Barracks at Haydar Pasa, Istanbul
The Selimiye Barracks at Haydar Pasa (built by Mahmud II in 1828), known in Turkish as Kisla - the site of Florence Nightingales British Military Hospital during the Crimean War. Date: circa 1910s

SMS Breslau - Re-named Midilli for the Ottoman Fleet - WW1
SMS Breslau was a Magdeburg-class cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built in the early 1910s. Following her commissioning

The Italo-Turkish War - Tripoli occupied by Italy
The Italo-Turkish War - A postcard celebrating Tripoli being captured by Italy in 1911. Date: circa 1912

Izmir, Turkey - Belltower, Orthodox Cathedral of Agia Fotini
The bell tower of the former Orthodox Cathedral of Agia Fotini in Izmir, Turkey - built 1856. Demolished, but re-constructed at Nea Smyrni, a municipality and a southern suburb of Athens

Railway Station as abandoned by the Turks - Aleppo, Syria
Railway Station as abandoned by the remnants of the Ottoman Empires Yildirim Army Groups (commanded by Mustafa Kemal Pasha - Ataturk) following the Battle of Aleppo, fought on 25th October 1918

Turkish cossack, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Arbuthnot Trophy - British Navy interfleet crosscountry Race
After the Marathon race for the Arbuthnot Trophy - a British Navy interfleet crosscountry running race - named after Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot

Statue of a Assyrian King Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC)
Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC). Assyrian king. Statue. Basalt. Neo-Assyrian Period. Assur (Qalat Sharqat). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Turkish battlecruiser, Yavuz Sultan Selim, formerly the German ship SMS Goeben, transferred to Turkey in 1914. Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1
Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose)

First Balkan War, 1912-1913. Treaty of London in May 1913. One of the previous sessions of the territorial negotiations between the Ottoman Empire

Gallipoli - bringing in horses by Matania, WW1
Telegraph work in Gallipoli - an unrecorded incident of individual bravery. Two men of the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers bringing two uninjured horses back to British lines during a severe Turkish

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Abdul Hamid, WW1
Cartoon, The Expert, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback with massacred civilians at his feet and a sword dripping with blood

Bektashi Dervish at Tangiers, Morocco. Founder of the Bektashi order was Hajji Bektash Wali (1209 - 1271) - is today a renowned figure in the history and culture of both Ottoman Empire

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bombings of Boatmen of Thessaloniki
The Boatmen of Thessaloniki (or the Assassins of Salonica), were a Bulgarian anarchistic group, active in the Ottoman Empire in the years between 1900 - 1903

Typical Fantasy Harem Scene from the Middle East - the girls lazing on a sunny afternoon on the roof, catching some rays... Date: circa 1910s

Bursa, Turkey - School of Silk Weaving / Silk Worm Farming. Fourth largest city and the first Ottoman Capital. Historically also known Prussa and later Brussa

Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action
The Great Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action on the waterfront - note the railway lines, laid by the French. Date: 1922

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto, oil on canvas (1891) by Ilya Repin

Sultan Abdulhamid II - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) - 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last to exert effective control over the Empire as a whole entity. Date: circa 1916

Sultan Murad V - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Murad V (1840-1904) - 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned (rather briefly) from 30th May to 31st August 1876. Date: 1876

Sultan Mahmud II - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Mahmud II (1789-1839) - the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Date: circa 1830s

Sultan Mustafa I Deli - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Mustafa I Deli (15911639) son of Mehmed III, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623. Date: circa 1623

Sultan Selim I (The Grim) - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Selim I, nicknamed Yavuz, " the Stern" or " the Steadfast", but often rendered in English as " the Grim" (1465/1466/14701520)

Sultan Mehmed I Celebi - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Mehmed I Celebi (13901421) - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Date: circa 1420

Sultan Orhan - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Orhan or Orhan Bey (12811362), the second bey (ruler) of the Ottoman Empire (at this stage known as the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate). Date: circa 1360

Sultan Osman I - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Osman I or Othman I or Osman Gazi (12581326) Ottoman Turkish Sultan Osman Ghazi, Turkish, nicknamed " Kara" (black) - leader of the Ottoman Turks

Map of Asia Minor (Turkey) - in antiquity - pre-Ottoman Empire. Date: 1804

Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), (in centre of photograph) Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman and first President of Turkey. Founder of modern Turkish state. (date unknown)

Prince Mehmed Ertugrul Efendi
HIH Prince Sehzade Mehmed Ertugrul Efendi (1912-1944) - the last crown prince of the Ottoman Empire. Removed from Turkey by the British following the fall of the Sultanate

Istanbul - Hospital at Haydar Pasa, Turkey - The Faculty of Medicine. Date: circa 1910s

Zaro Agha - the Oldest man in the world - aged 156! - who toured with Bertram Mills Circus. Born in 1775 at Bitlis in Turkey, he fought against Napoleon at the Siege of Acre in Syria

Battle of Bizani - Surrender of Ottoman Garrison at Ioannina
The surrender of the Ottoman garrison of Ioannina (Jannina) after the Battle of Bizani fought between the Greek and the Ottoman forces during the last stages of the First Balkan War. Date: 1912

Tabriz Prince Baba Bar Ischaja Mualim Date: circa 1903

Gypsy Basket Makers
Gypsy Bohemian basket makers, with baskets made of wood shavings (or rushes?) in a variety of shapes and sizes

Egyptian Lady of the Turkish Harem
Egyptian lady of the Turkish Harem, smoking a Hookah Pipe and reclining on a armchair. The true historical nature of the Turkish/Eastern/Ottoman Harem was the housing of the women

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