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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage
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📷 #Portrait of an Ottoman Student, 1890s
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
🗺️ A Paper with a #Map of #America Drawn on It, 1900s.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
⚓ Ottoman Navy Soldiers at the Istanbul Shipyard, c. 1890 #NavalHistory
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📜 From Old Books, 18th Century

“Stay alert — where the people of delight gather,
Never let anyone be without #coffee.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📷 People Chatting Under a Tree by the Meles River in Halkapınar, Izmir, 1870s (Western Türkiye)
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
📷 Souvenir Studio Photograph of Four Brothers, c. 1900. #Portrait
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
✏️ A Street in Edirne, 1839
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📜 A Christian Book and Psalms and Hymns in Arabic, Ottoman Levant, c. Mid-18th Century #Manuscript
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
✏️ A Man Gazing at the Garden from the Namazgah (Prayer Nook) Window of His Wooden House, Istanbul, September 6, 1909. #Charcoal
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🏛️ A Damascus Parquetry Wood #Chair and Plant Stand, Syria, Late 19th Century
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🖍️ An Ottoman Officer in the Artillery Corps, #18thCentury
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1864 "Surely, the Most Beautiful of All Beauties is Beautiful Character."
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🎨 Istanbul, 1838 #19thCentury
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
📷 Ottoman Empire Costume Album, 1873

From Right:
✦ Muslim Turkish Woman of Salonica (Greece)
✦ Christian Bulgarian Woman of Prilep (Macedonia)
✦ Jewish Woman of Salonica (Greece)
#history #fashionhistory
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"The unraveler of meaning’s knots, the binder of the branches of all science
The lamp of the prophets’ assembly, the candle lit from Adam’s flame.

He is Abraham in nature, Joseph in grace, and Moses in speech
Khidr in visage, Muhammad in conduct, and the Messiah (Jesus) in breath."

✏️ Re'yî, 16thC.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🏛️ Ottoman Official and Personal Seals, 19th Century and Later #Seal
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
✏️ An Ottoman Military Barracks Near the Old Palace in Edirne, 1829 (Western Türkiye)
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🖍️ An Ottoman #Miniature, A Scene from a Historical Narrative Depicting Ladies Picnicking in a Garden, While Horsemen Gather Outside Its Walls, Likely #Baghdad, 16th Century.
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Composition in Gold on a Natural #Leaf, c. 1900
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📷 Souvenir Photo of Two Sisters on the Beylerbeyi Ridge, Üsküdar, Istanbul, 1900s
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
📷 Topkapı, Istanbul, c. 1870
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
📷 Portrait of a Young Man, Istanbul, 1910s
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📷 Giresun Municipality Building, c. 1900 (Northern Türkiye)
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📜 From Old Books, 18th Century

"It is a wonder how a lover can sleep,
for every sleep is forbidden to the enamored."
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📷 Reception Hall of the #Syria Province Governorate, 1898
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM