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)

Mots clés

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