Trachten XVI. / Costumes XVI.

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Article ID AST1320

Title

Trachten XVI. / Costumes XVI.

Description

5 images of Turks in national dress. Figure two and three show the head cook of the Janissaries and his companions. Figure four shows sailors, a Greek sailor and a sea soldier. Figure five shows two soldiers dressed according to the Nizam Jedid. In addition, an extra page with a German and French description of the illustrations.

Year

ca. 1830

Artist

Anonymus

Historical Description

The area of today's Turkey has been populated since the Paleolithic. The name of the Turks comes from Central Asia. The immigrants from whom Turkey got its name were the Oghusen and came from the area around the Aral Sea. The Turkish settlement of Anatolia began with the arrival of the Seljuks in the 11th century AD. Around 1299, Osman I, Gazi (1259–1326) founded the Ottoman dynasty named after him, from which the name of the Ottoman Empire (also called the Turkish Empire) ) derives. After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans ruled over large parts of the Middle East, North Africa, the Crimea, the Caucasus and the Balkans. After the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe was brought to a standstill near Vienna and the Ottoman army was defeated there on Kahlenberg in 1683, the empire was pushed back further and further from its European territories to the tip west of the Marmara Sea, between Istanbul and Edirne. The national movements that emerged from the 19th century onwards led to a gradual fragmentation of the empire, the occupation of Turkish North Africa by European powers and finally the defeat in the First World War resulted in its ultimate decline.

Dimensions (cm)21,5 x14,5 cm
ConditionMinor stains
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueFeather Lithography

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