#black ottomans

[barbucomedie]

Model 1861 Breech Loading Converted Springfield Rifle from the United States of America dated to the 19th Century on display at the Black Watch Castle and Museum in Perth, Scotland

This rifle was captured from the Arab Auxiliary Force by the 2nd Battalion The Black Watch at Sanai in Mesopotamia, 1917. The rifle is a breech-loading Springfield Model 1861. This type of rifle was used by the US Army during the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865. Large quantities of these surplus rifles were sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1869 and were still in use by auxiliary units during the First World War.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[humasahsultanimsworld]

The sparkle of the black caftan worn by Kösem Sultan in 25 Episodes

[wardrobeoftime]

Rise of Empires: Ottoman + Headpieces

Mara Branković's headpieces.

[froyocorp]

"His name is Spruce, and if Mary is to be believed, he's a real loudmouth."

[cid5]

A German, Bulgarian and Turkish soldier on patrol together in Constanza, Romania.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Trans Historical Fiction

The Companion by EE Ottoman Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Bonus: These are all Adult, but in YA, check out The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Double Bonus: Coming in 2024, The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

[magnificentposting-fabrizioart]

Mocenigo Appreciation Time

Today's National Italian Day, so in honour of our Repubblic let's hear it for an older repubblican italian rep, AND the most randomly bullied character in the first 10+ Episodes.

Btw Ibrahim pretending not to speak italian for a while just to be able to annoy the guy by mocking his hat, and then do the power move of "I too can actually speak an hilarious broken italian instead of the Venetian we're supposed to be speaking" is the moment in which he first lost points in my book.

Dat Kafir drip, tho.

[blueiscoool]

Artifacts Found in Israel were used by "Sorcerers" in "Magical Rituals" 4 Centuries Ago

Israeli researchers have uncovered artifacts that "professional sorcerers" used in "magical rituals" hundreds of years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a news release.

The professional sorcerers would have been visited by Muslim pilgrims traveling from Cairo in Egypt to the city of Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula. The rituals would include attempts to ward off the "evil eye," heal diseases and more. The three researchers on the project said in a joint statement that the discovery shows that "people in the Early Ottoman Period — just as today — consulted popular sorcerers, alongside the formal belief in the official religion."

"This is the first time that such a large assemblage of ritual objects of this kind has been found," the researchers — Itamar Taxel of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Uzi Avner of the Dead Sea-Arava Science Center and Nitzan Amitai-Preiss of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — said in the news release.

The artifacts were discovered in the late 1990s, at an archaeological site in Southern Israel's Eilat Hills. The finds included "dozens of fragments of clay globular rattles, mostly like table tennis balls, containing small stones, that sound when the rattle was shaken" and "two artifacts like miniature votive incense altars, a small figurine of a naked woman or a goddess with raised hands, a characteristic feature of deities or priests, a few other figurines, and colored quartz pebbles." The items were found broken, which the researchers said might have been intentional and done during the ritual ceremonies. An analysis of the clay the items were made of showed that they came from Egypt.

The artifacts were found along the Pilgrimage Road, also known in Arabic as the Darb al-Hajj, which ran from Cairo to the Arabian Peninsula. Camping sites and structures have also been found along the route in the same area the artifacts were found. Researchers believe these areas began to be used in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries.

"The find-spot of these artifacts next to the camping site, and the comparison of the artifacts to those known in the Muslim world, as well as the fact that these artifacts were found together as a group, lead to the understanding that they were used in magical rituals," the researchers said. "It seems that these rituals were carried out at the site by one or several people who specialized in popular magical ceremonies."

By Kerry Breen.

[mydaylight]

Greek bourgeois lady from the Fener district of Constantinople, 18th Century.

Oil painting attributed to Jean B. van Moor (1671 -1737). From the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece.

*Fener (Phanari) is the district of Istanbul where the Patriarchate is located. The name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion" meaning lantern (or streetlamp). Fener was the traditional Greek neighborhood of the city during the Ottoman era.

[jooniesdimples]

Happy Halloween from my fuzzy prince of darkness who is convinced these wings weigh 100lbs 🎃👻🖤

[fireheartedpup]

I thought I could ask my grandma for help and she asked why I don't have a job 🥲

[venicepearl]

Hamide Ayşe Sultan (15 November 1887 – 10 August 1960) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Müşfika Kadın.

[humasahsultanimsworld]

Hümaşah Sultan and Black

[wardrobeoftime]

Rise of Empires: Ottoman + Costumes

Mara Branković's purple & golden dress and purple, golden & black coat in Season 02, Episode 02.

// requested by @garnetbutterflysblog

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldTurtleDay on a #TurtleTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: what does this unusual 18th c. English portrait have in common with this early 20th c. Ottoman one from Pera Müzesi? More than you may think! 😉Find out more on the blog:

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Turtle Day: an unusual tortoise portrait from 18th Century England, and its connection to Ottoman Turkey https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/05/23/animal-art-of-the-day-for-world-turtle-day-an-unusual-tortoise-portrait-from-18th-century-england-and-its-connection-to-ottoman-turkey/

Still Life With a Tortoise, 1743 possibly by Thomas Black (English, 1715-1777) oil on canvas, 74.9 x 96.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Tortoise Trainer, 1906 version by Osman Hamdi Bey (Ottoman, 1842-1910) oil on canvas, 221.5 x 120 cm Pera Müzesi

[moonstone-vibe]