Turkish Collection (page 16)

The Column of Constantine or Burnt Column, Istanbul
The Column of Constantine (or Burnt Column ) is a monumental column constructed on the orders of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD

Pipe-smoking Syrian Dervish with fantastic hairstyle. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Visit of Gen Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer to Turkey - 19
Photograph from an album of 26 photographs commemorating the visit of Gen Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer to Turkey 2 July 1956 - 8 Jul 1956. Associated with the Turkish Army. Date: 1956

Antakya, Turkey
General view on the Orontes River and Antakya, near the south border of Turkey (formerly Syria). Date: circa 1910

Orontes River in Antakya, Turkey
Bridge over Orontes River and school at the river bank in Antakya, Turkey (formerly Syria). Date: circa 1910

Christian neighbourhood in Antakya, Turkey
View on the Christian neighbourhood of Antakya, Turkey (formerly Syria), across the Orontes River, with a child and an adult fishing on the river bank. Date: circa 1910

Railway construction at Belemedik, Turkey -- part of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. Date: circa 1915

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine - Turkish Tower and Synagogue
Turkish Tower and Synagogue at Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamenets-Podolsky) - a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine. Date: 1906

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine - Turkish Bridge and Castle
Turkish Bridge and Castle at Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamenets-Podolsky) - a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine. Date: circa 1910s

Damascus, Syria - The Town Hall. Date: 1914

Site of the Ancient Issus - Iskenderun, Turkey
Site of Ancient Issus (and Alexander the Greats famous victory over Darius III at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC) close to Iskenderun, Turkey and the Syrian border. Date: circa 1920s

Italo-Turkish War - Raffaele Borea Ricci d Olmo, Admiral
Italo-Turkish War - Raffaele Borea Ricci d Olmo, an Italian naval officer with the rank of Counter Admiral. He was the first Italian governor of Tripolitania

Neo-Hittite hieroglyphic Inscription from Carchemish, Syria
Hieroglyphic inscription, Neo-Hittite, c9th century BC. A large relief carving on a basalt slab found near Aleppo, Syria - the Carchemish (Karkemish) site

Kaiser Wilhelm II - Turkish WW1 Propaganda Postcard
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) - a very interesting Turkish WW1 Propaganda Postcard of their Central Powers ally, set in an oval with a laurel wreath-style border above three lines of Ottoman script

Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market
Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market andria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary in Turkmenistan

Ase (Aase) Clausen - Miss Europe in 1932
A Turkish postcard depicting Danish beauty and Actress Ase (Aase) Clausen (1914-2005) - Miss Europe in 1932. Interestingly, this means that Turkey entered a competitor into the competition that year

Ankara, Turkey - Ataturk Statue - Victory Monument
Ulus Meydani (Square) with the Victory Monument (Ataturk equestrian statue) in Ankara, Turkey - left side of Bank Street. The Monument (inaugurated in 1927) was designed by Austrian Henrich Krippel

Laz gang - Turkey
Predictably the Black Sea man, or the " Laz" as he is called with a mixture of affection and sneer, has become a stock figure of the Turkish social typology. This gang is from Rize

Man from Adana - Ancient coastal region of Cilicia
Man from Adana, Turkey - Ancient coastal region of Cilicia. Date: circa 1910s

Vittorio Emanuele III & Mehmet V - First Treaty of Lausanne
King Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947) and Sultan Mehmed V Resad (Reshad) (1844-1918) - postcard commemorating the First Treaty of Lausanne

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