Street market with fruit and vegetable vendors and supervisors. The Sehzade Mosque in Instanbul in the background.
Ottoman Mosque of Shah-za-deh Djamesi (Sehzade), Constantinople.
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Historical travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The discovery of the world
Paris. The Place Vendôme and the Column Vendôme
Place Vendôme is one of the five “royal squares” of Paris and is located in the middle of the city
A group of young tree-ferns (Alsophila crinita) in the highlands of Sri Lanka.
A Group of young tree ferns (Alsophila crinita) in the rainforest near the highest point of the road, leading from Nuwara Eliya to Rangbodde, Sri Lanka.
Prison of the Seven Towers. Yedikule Fortress.
The Prison of the Seven Towers. Yedikule Fortress or Dungeons of the Seven Towers in Istanbul, former Constantinople.
The Hyperian Fountain at Pherae of Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece.
Mosque at the famous Messeis spring of Kefalovryso, the Hyperian fountain of antiquity, at todays Velestino (ancient Pherae).
Sepulchre of Hassan Baba at the entrance of the vale of Tempe.
The Hasan Baba Tekke was a dervish gathering house, operated by the philosophical Bektashi order in the Tempi Valley, Greece.
The Katabathron of Lake Kopais in Boeoti, Greece.
Lake Kopais, also spelled Copais or Kopaida, was a lake in the ancient landscape of Boeotia in Greece, and already in ancient times attempts were made to drain the lake completely.
Mount Olympus as seen between Larissa and Baba, Greece.
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain range in Greece. Its southern side, which is represented in this view, constitutes the boundary of Thessaly
Monastery of Mega Spileo in Arcadia, Greece.
The monastery Mega Spileo is a monastery in Greece, located between the Gulf of Corinth and the small town of Kalavryta.
Lake of Stymphalos in Arcadia, Greece.
According to legend, Stymphalos was only settleable after Heracles killed the crane-sized Stymphalian birds with his bow and arrow