📷 Souvenir Photo of Two Sisters on the Beylerbeyi Ridge, Üsküdar, Istanbul, 1900s

📷 Giresun Municipality Building, c. 1900 (Northern Türkiye)

📷 Portrait of a Young Man, Istanbul, 1910s

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century "It is a wonder how a lover can sleep, for every sleep is forbidden to the enamored."

📷 Souvenir Photo of Two Sisters on the Beylerbeyi Ridge, Üsküdar, Istanbul, 1900s

📷 Topkapı, Istanbul, c. 1870

📷 Portrait of a Young Man, Istanbul, 1910s

📷 Giresun Municipality Building, c. 1900 (Northern Türkiye)

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century "It is a wonder how a lover can sleep, for every sleep is forbidden to the enamored."

📷 Reception Hall of the #Syria Province Governorate, 1898

🖍️ Street Vendors of Pastries and Clotted Cream, Istanbul, 1839 #Vendor

📷 Horse-Drawn Tram in a Suburb of #Baghdad, Iraq, 1900s

📷 Studio Photograph of a Young Man, Istanbul, c. 1900

🏛️ The Gate of the Yeşil Mosque in Bursa was Built in 1420 (Western Türkiye) #Architecture #Architectural

📷 Portrait of Captain Yorghi (Konstantinidis) Pasha (1828–1906), the #Christian #Mayor of Giresun (Northern Türkiye) who served between 1881 and 1906

📷 Viev of #Jerusalem from Mount of Olives, Palestine, 1898

📷 Studio Souvenir Photograph of a Little Girl with a Handwritten Note on the Back, 1900s "To My Dear Sister Belkıs, as an Everlasting Keepsake.. Saime.."

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century “Gentle speech is the bond of hearts; soften your words, and you will be loved.”

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century “Gentle speech is the bond of hearts; soften your words, and you will be loved.”

📷 Studio Souvenir Photograph of a Little Girl with a Handwritten Note on the Back, 1900s "To My Dear Sister Belkıs, as an Everlasting Keepsake.. Saime.."

📷 Portrait of an Apple Seller, Istanbul, c. 1870

📷 Ottoman Officers in Tripoli, #Libya, 1908

📷 Portrait of Mehmed Tahir Efendi, 1913, Ottoman Biographer and Bibliographer, Author of "Osmanlı Müellifleri" (Ottoman Authors), (1861-1925)

🏛️ An Ottoman #Tombstone, 1751 "God is the Everlasting. For the soul of the late Seyyid Musa Efendi, scribe of the Janissary Corps. al-Fātiḥa. Year 1751"

🖍️ A Street #Egg Seller, Istanbul, 1657

📷 Ottoman Telegraph Station in #Benghazi, Libya, 1900s

📷 A Street in Eyüp, Istanbul, 1880s

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century: “A person should always keep a notebook with them so that they may consult it. It has been said: Whoever does not have a notebook in their pocket, wisdom will not become firmly established in their heart.” #Manuscript

📷 An Arabian #Horse Purchased from the Vicinity of #Mosul for the Adana Stallion Depot, Iraq, c. 1900

🧵 An Ottoman Kaftan, 17th Century

📷 Poet Yahya Kemal's Youth Portrait and a Poem He Wrote at the Age of 18 in 1902 "In a soul-refreshing meadow, In a lovely, heart-adorned rose garden, I dearly love the radiant dawn; In a perfectly tranquil plain, To wander silently, alone, I dearly love such springtime roaming." [𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁]

🗺️ An Ottoman Map of the Methana Fortress in the Saronikos Bay (Greece), 1520s #OldMaps #Maps

📷 Portrait of an Ottoman Captain of African Origin, Mehmed Halid Efendi, Istanbul, 1890s

✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1887 "God does not show mercy to those who do not show mercy to people" (Prophet ﷺ)

📷 Souvenir Photograph of Two Ottoman Women at Home, Istanbul, 1910s

📷 An Arabian #Horse Purchased from the Vicinity of #Mosul for the Adana Stallion Depot, Iraq, c. 1900

🧵 An Ottoman Kaftan, 17th Century

📷 Poet Yahya Kemal's Youth Portrait and a Poem He Wrote at the Age of 18 in 1902 "In a soul-refreshing meadow, In a lovely, heart-adorned rose garden, I dearly love the radiant dawn; In a perfectly tranquil plain, To wander silently, alone, I dearly love such springtime roaming." [𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁]

📷 Horse-Drawn Carriages in Istanbul, 1900s

🗺️ Map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe and Asia, 1700s #OldMaps

📷 An Ottoman Middle School in Üsküdar, Istanbul, 1890s

📷 Portrait of an Ottoman Colonel, Sâdık el-Müeyyed Pasha, 1897 #MilitaryHistory

📷 Portrait of an Ottoman Colonel, Sâdık el-Müeyyed Pasha, 1897 #MilitaryHistory

📷 #Russian Church in Jerusalem, Palestine, 1886

✏️ A Street in #Trabzon, 19th Century (Northern Türkiye)

✒️ #Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1872 “O God, I seek refuge in You from anxiety and grief. I seek refuge in You from incapacity and laziness. I seek refuge in You from cowardice and miserliness. I seek refuge in You from being overpowered by debt and from the oppression of men.”

📷 #Russian Church in Jerusalem, Palestine, 1886

✏️ A Street in #Trabzon, 19th Century (Northern Türkiye)

✒️ #Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1872 “O God, I seek refuge in You from anxiety and grief. I seek refuge in You from incapacity and laziness. I seek refuge in You from cowardice and miserliness. I seek refuge in You from being overpowered by debt and from the oppression of men.”

"Her brows are black, her locks of ambergris, her mouth fresh as the rose; With this beauty, she is the chosen of all lovers. In the rose garden, thousands of sighing lovers, like nightingales, Are made vagrant and heart-bound by her rosebud lips." ✏️ Âlî Efendi (1784-1833)