HISTORICAL MAPS

Monks paying to pirates to buy and free Christian captives. This is a 17th Century illustration and the author is unknown. It was used a cover image on Wolfgang Kaiser's "Le Commerce des Captifs" During the 17th century, Barbary pirates and English pirates were in a collaboration against Catholic shipping around Mediterranean.

FA Cup is one of the most popular football competitions in the world. And the first final was played on 16 March 1872 at Kennington Oval in London, between Wanderers and Royal Engineers. There were 2,000 football fans around the pitch to watch the game live. Wanderers won the match 1 - 0. The winning Wanderers team received the trophy at a special reception at the Pall Mall Restaurant. This is the only photograph of The Royal Engineers pictured in 1872. Back: Merriman, Ord, Marindin, Addison, Mitchell; Front: Hoskyns, Renny-Tailyour, Creswell, Goodwyn, Barker, Rich.

Hejaz Train Line From Damascus to Medina A rabic Map of Hejaz Railway that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa . Hejaz Train Line was a part of the Ottoman railway network and was built to extend the line from the Istanbul beyond Damascus to the holy city of Mecca. The most known historical railway Opened in 1908 Track length: 1,320 km (820 mi)

The Great Game. British Lion and Russian Bear British Empire and Russian Empire were trying to control Central Asia and Afghanistan  was one of the most important places of this conflict.  This cartoon by Sir John Tenniel ( English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist ) tells us about the situation of the local rulers during "The Great Game"  years. Here we see the Afghan Emir Sheikh Ali Khan with his "friends" Russia and Great Britain . It was published in Punch magazine, 30 November, 1878

Those who have been interested in yoga for a while or longer already knew about this name. " Swami Vivekananda " was in India and lived between 1863-1902. He was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. He is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century.

What is  Budhagupta Stone? Budhagupta was a Gupta emperor.  He had close ties with the rulers of Kannauj kingdom and together they sought to rule the Huns out of the fertile plains of Northern India. This is a replica of Buddhagupta stone ( the original one was found in Seberang Perai, Malaysia and is kept in the National Museum, Calcutta, India ) on display at the National History Museum, Kuala Lumpur. The inscription refers to the reign of Budhagupta and it is dated A.D. 484-485.

An old team photograph of Rosario Central Rosario Central, Argentinean Football Club, The Champions of Primera B, 1951  Source : El Gráfico magazine

T ürkiye  Cumhuriyet'in ilk kadın Millet Vekilleri. İsimleri ve seçildikleri bölgeler Mebrure Gönenç (Afyonkarahisar), Hatı Çırpan (Satı Kadın - Ankara ), Türkan Örs Baştuğ (Antalya), Sabiha Gökçül Erbay (Balıkesir ), Şekibe İnsel (Bursa), Hatice Özgener (Çankırı), Huriye Öniz Baha (Diyarbakır), Fatma Memik (Edirne), Nakiye Elgün (Erzurum ), Fakihe Öymen (İstanbul), Ferruh Güpgüp (Kayseri ), Bahire Bediş Morova Aydilek (Konya), Mihri Bektaş (Malatya), Meliha Ulaş (Samsun), Esma Nayman (Seyhan), Sabiha Görkey (Sivas ), Seniha Hızal (Trabzon ), Benal Nevzad İstar Arıman (İzmir )

A beautiful portrait of a young Berber woman from Tunisa  This photo was taken in 1905 by Rudolf Franz Lehnert. It clearly shows the traditional tattoos and jewellery of young Berber women of North Africa in early 1900s.

Community soup kitchens, Santiago, Chile, 1932 A photograph that tells us a lot about "The Great Depression in Chile" that begun 1929 was felt strongly from 1930 to 1932.  ( Photographer is unknown, it was published by Zig-Zag editorial, Santiago )

Historical Map of States and Empires in Southeastern Europe and Balkan Nations 950 A.D. Magyars, Serbs, Croats, Bulgarian Empire, Pechenegs, Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Italy and Roman Empire.

Nunivak Children, 1930.   This photograph shows how the Eskimo children on Nunivak Island did look like in 1930's. Nunivak is a volcabic island in Alaska. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1930.

Map of Ethnic Peoples of Sierra Leone. There are about sixteen ethnic groups in Sierra Leone. Membership of an ethnic group often overlaps with a shared religious identity. As you see on the map, these are; Creole, Sherbro, Limba, Kono, Koranko, Mende, Temne, Susu and other tribes.

A detailed historic map of Sierra Leone, 1913. Repuplic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. In 1913 it was a British colony. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries

A historical map of the most powerful Turkic Empires in 13th Century. In 1405, Ottoman Turks in Minor Asia, Anatolia and Balkans. Mamluk Sultanate in Middle East , Egypt and North Africa Timurid Empire in Iran, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and much of Central Asia. Source: Silk Road Seattle, UW

Who were living in Middle East 2,500 years ago? An interesting historical map that shows us how the Orient looked like in very ancient times. Egypt Empire , Babylonia, Assyria, Phoenician settlements, Mycenean civilisation. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries

A collection of photographs from Cairo to Constantinople. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Friday, 7 November 2014 to Sunday, 22 February 2015 More info : royalcollection.org.uk This exhibition follows the journey taken by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1862, as he undertook a four month tour around the Middle East. Seen through the photographs of Francis Bedford (1815-94), the first photographer to travel on a royal tour, it explores the cultural and political significance Victorian Britain attached to the region, which was then as complex and contested as it remains today. The tour took the Prince to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece where he met rulers, politicians and other notable figures, and travelled in a manner not associated with royalty – by horse and camping out in tents. On the royal party’s return to England , Francis Bedford’s work was displayed in what was described as ‘the most important photo...

Norwegian Village Girls 1890 This photograph was taken in Jølster, Norway 130 years ago. A beautiful black & white photograph of Axel Lindahl, a Swedish photographer, tells us alot about how Norwegian village girls looked like in the end of 1800's. Oat was one of the most important food for Scandinavian peoples. And the farmers were harvesting it by hand. See: Women in Fiji 1935 Havreskjering på Fossheim i Jølster -  Axel Lindahl/Norwegian Museum of Cultural History)