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📜 An Ottoman Decoupage Album Page with a Garden, 17th Century
October 27, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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📷 The Island of #Rhodes, People Walking at the Port, 1900s (Colorized Photo)
October 27, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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📷 Keepsake Portrait of an #Arab Father and Children, Turkiye or Syria, c. 1910 (Colorized Photo)
October 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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📷 An #Armenian Church in #Bursa (Western Anatolia), c. 1900 (Colorized Photo)
October 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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🎨 Portrait of an #Albanian Young Man, 1876 🖌️ Charles Bargue (AI-Restored Painting)
October 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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📜 Petitions and accompanying local endorsement bearing the signatures of Right Wing Colonels, and the Judge (Qadi) of Bilisht ( #Albania), requesting that the timar located in the village of Menosca, Kastoria ( #Greece), be granted to Hüseyin, following its dismissal from Ibrahim, 1758.
October 26, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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📜 Petitions and accompanying local endorsement bearing the signatures of Right Wing Colonels, and the Judge (Qadi) of Bilisht ( #Albania), requesting that the timar located in the village of Menosca, Kastoria ( #Greece), be granted to Hüseyin, following its dismissal from Ibrahim, 1758.
October 26, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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🎨 Portrait of an #Albanian Young Man, 1876 🖌️ Charles Bargue (AI-Restored Painting)
October 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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📷 Portraits from Imperial Album, #Crete Island, 1873 (From Left to Right):
✦ Resident of Sphakia, Crete
✦ Christian Woman Villager of Chania, Crete
✦ Christian Villager of Chania, Crete
(Colorized Photo)
October 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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📷 A Traveling Karagöz Puppeteer and Children Gathered Around Him in the Suburbs of Istanbul, c. 1910 (Colorized Photo
October 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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📷 Garden Keepsake Portrait of Ottoman Family, Istanbul, 1910s (Colorized Photo)
October 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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📷 Garden Keepsake Portrait of Ottoman Family, Istanbul, 1910s (Colorized Photo)
October 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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📷 Studio Portrait of a Kalenderi Derwish, 1890s (Colorized Photo)
October 25, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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✏️ Arrival of the New Ottoman Grand Vizier of #Greek Origin (Ibrahim Edhem Pasha) at the Sublime Porte, Istanbul, 1877 (Colorized Illustration)
October 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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📷 Portrait of an Ottoman Boy Painting a Picture, Istanbul, 1895 (Colorized Photo)
Painter Artist Art Painting Ottoman Empire
October 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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📷 The Town of #Bafra, Samsun, 1872 (Northern Anatolia)
October 24, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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🎨 Portrait of Mehmed Ruşen Efendi, Ottoman Voivod (Governor) of #Athens ( #Greece), 1819 🖌️ Louis Dupré

"Meeting with the Voivode of Athens: Among the friends I made in Athens, I must include the Voivode, with whom I had a singular opportunity to become acquainted.. [𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁]
"Meeting with the Voivode of Athens: Among the friends I made in Athens, I must include the Voivode, with whom I had a singular opportunity to become acquainted. I had gone near a mosque that I wished to sketch. My work was constantly interrupted by a man who demanded money in a rather rude manner. Annoyed by his importunities, I refused to give him anything before finishing my work and decided to withdraw. While returning home with my box of colors, I passed beneath the Voivode’s windows; he noticed me and politely invited me to come up. I went up at once, and after satisfying his curiosity by showing him the study I had just begun, my brushes, my colors, my palette, and the folding seat I used, I complained about the man’s behavior. He was kind enough to say that he would have me accompanied by an Albanian from his guard, and he kept his word; from that moment I had complete freedom to finish my painting.I eagerly went to thank the Voivode, and from then on we became the best of friends. He often invited me to visit him, never failing to add to his invitation the request that I bring my camp chair. Struck by the pleasure with which he never ceased to contemplate this piece of furniture, which was new to him, I took care before my departure to have a seat made for him that was exactly the same.I had painted his portrait for myself, and I thanked him for his kindness with a copy. One day when I was to sit for a session, I arrived just as he was about to sit down to table with four guests. I left them to it and remained seated on the sofa, promising myself some pleasure in witnessing a Turkish dinner. But the Voivode invited me through an interpreter, and upon my refusal had me told: “I thought my friend would not refuse to dine with me.” I excused myself by saying that I had only just breakfasted." (Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, 1825)
October 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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📜 An Ottoman Firman of Sultan Ahmed III, 1722. The Text Acknowledging the Vassal State Status of the Shirvan Khanate (Salyan, Agsu, Samaki) in #Azerbaijan, Ottoman Turkish Manuscript on Paper.
October 24, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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🎨 Portrait of Mehmed Ruşen Efendi, Ottoman Voivod (Governor) of #Athens ( #Greece), 1819 🖌️ Louis Dupré

"Meeting with the Voivode of Athens: Among the friends I made in Athens, I must include the Voivode, with whom I had a singular opportunity to become acquainted.. [𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁]
"Meeting with the Voivode of Athens: Among the friends I made in Athens, I must include the Voivode, with whom I had a singular opportunity to become acquainted. I had gone near a mosque that I wished to sketch. My work was constantly interrupted by a man who demanded money in a rather rude manner. Annoyed by his importunities, I refused to give him anything before finishing my work and decided to withdraw. While returning home with my box of colors, I passed beneath the Voivode’s windows; he noticed me and politely invited me to come up. I went up at once, and after satisfying his curiosity by showing him the study I had just begun, my brushes, my colors, my palette, and the folding seat I used, I complained about the man’s behavior. He was kind enough to say that he would have me accompanied by an Albanian from his guard, and he kept his word; from that moment I had complete freedom to finish my painting.I eagerly went to thank the Voivode, and from then on we became the best of friends. He often invited me to visit him, never failing to add to his invitation the request that I bring my camp chair. Struck by the pleasure with which he never ceased to contemplate this piece of furniture, which was new to him, I took care before my departure to have a seat made for him that was exactly the same.I had painted his portrait for myself, and I thanked him for his kindness with a copy. One day when I was to sit for a session, I arrived just as he was about to sit down to table with four guests. I left them to it and remained seated on the sofa, promising myself some pleasure in witnessing a Turkish dinner. But the Voivode invited me through an interpreter, and upon my refusal had me told: “I thought my friend would not refuse to dine with me.” I excused myself by saying that I had only just breakfasted." (Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, 1825)
October 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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📷 Serbian Men and Women in a Provincial Town in Ottoman #Serbia, c. 1862 (Colorized Illustration)
October 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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📷 Ottoman #Albanian Battalion in Istanbul, 1st Albanian Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Hassa Army), c. 1890 (Colorized Photo)
October 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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📷 The Town of #Bafra, Samsun, 1872 (Northern Anatolia)
October 24, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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📷 Studio Portrait of an Ottoman Woman, 1880s (Colorized Photo)
October 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, c. 1820.

"God always prevails in whatever be His Will"
"Glory be to my Lord, the Most High, the Supreme, the Bestower."
✒️ Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi
October 22, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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📷 Heybeliada (Halki Island), Istanbul, 1890s (Colorized Photo)
October 22, 2026 at 5:47 PM