
Sujet
'View of the Bosphorus: The Castle of Europe',1890
Légende
'View of the Bosphorus: The Castle of Europe', 1890. On the European shore of the Bosphorus, Rumelihisari medieval fortress was built between 1451-1452 on the orders of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in preparation for a planned Ottoman siege on the then-Byzantine city of Constantinople. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]
Date
1890
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19F25_186
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
60,5Mo (3,1Mo) / 47,8cm x 31,7cm / 5650 x 3743 (300dpi)