Asia Minor Gallery

Seljuk Turks defeated at Dorylaeum, First Crusade

Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon, defeating Muslim forces of Sultan Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum in Asia Minor, 1097.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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View over town and harbour with Gulets, Kalkan, Lycia, Antalya Province, Mediterranean Coast

View over town and harbour with Gulets, Kalkan, Lycia, Antalya Province, Mediterranean Coast, Southwest Turkey, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

© Stuart Black

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Neri to Akra, c1915. Creator: Stanfords Geographical Establishment

Neri to Akra, c1915. Map showing the journey of British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes in Turkey, (at that time part of the Ottoman Empire). Features shown include castles, ruins, fountains, swamps and caravan routes. Sykes (1879-1919) travelled through Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Persia and Turkey between 1905 and 1913, was honorary attache to the British Embassy in Constantinople 1905-1906, was elected to parliament, worked in the Intelligence department of the War Office during the First World War, and died of the Spanish flu aged 39. From "The Caliphs Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]

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