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Chromolithograph of the mausoleum of the founder of the Giray dynasty and his successor, Mengli Giray (d.1515), who commissioned the building.Examine the image in more detail here.
Translation of the ZOOID note:
"Inscription over the doors of the tomb built, it is thought, by Mengli Giray Khan for his father, Haji Giray Khan, outside Bahçesaray at Chufut Kale (the Jewish fortress), in the area called Salaçık."
Translation…
"Inscription over the doors of the tomb built, it is thought, by Mengli Giray Khan for his father, Haji Giray Khan, outside Bahçesaray at Chufut Kale (the Jewish fortress), in the area called Salaçık."
Translation…
The only two-story Greek church found by Petr Keppen and documented in his "On the antiquities of southern Crimea".
Crimean Tatars on foot, on horseback, and in camel-driven wagons travel along a flat landscape with a large ruin in the background. According to Bossoli's notes, this is the ruin of a mosque.Bossoli also draws our attention to the "mounds of earth,…
Chromolithograph of a "cave church" at Mangup. Churches and monasteries were often built into the sides of cliffs in the Crimean mountains.
Chromolithograph. The French title of this lithograph ("view of the church at the foot of the mountain") makes no reference to the fact that this is, according to the Russian-language title, an interior view of the lower church. In Crimea, the most…
Chromolithograph of a crypt of an unknown khan. French title: "Ruins of the sepulchral cave of the khans".
Chromolithograph of a mosque built by Sultan Baybars (d. 1277) of Egypt. Baybars, one of the great Mamluk sultans, was likely a Kipchak Turk born in the Pontic steppe. He maintained close diplomatic ties with the Kipchak Khanate (also known as the…