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A typical military sign from the Ottoman Empire known as "arma" (this Homeric Greek expression itself reflects a symbol adopted under influence from abroad). Used in the Turkish army (infantry) and displayed on the reverse side of the battalion...

Opening ceremony of the First Ottoman Parliament at the Dolmabahçe Palace in 1876 CE. The First Constitutional Era lasted for only two years until 1878 CE. The Ottoman Constitution and Parliament were restored 30 years later with the Young...

Mehmed V (r. 1909-1918 CE) was proclaimed Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after the Young Turk Revolution. (Le Petit Journal, 1909 CE)

16-17 century CE Ottoman sipahis in battle at Vienna, holding the crescent banner (by Józef Brandt)

Selim III (r. 1789-1807 CE) watching the parade of his new army, the Nizam-ı Cedid (New Order) troops, in 1793 CE.

Depicted here in a 1922 CE oil painting, the Turkish capture of Smyrna now Izmir (known as the Liberation of Izmir in Turkish) on 9 September 1922 CE, following the successful Great Smyrna Offensive which effectively sealed the Turkish victory...

A painting of Sultan Selim I (r. 1512-1520 CE) during the Egypt campaign (1516-1517 CE). (Source: Army Museum, Istanbul).

A statue of the navigator and explorer Captain James Cook (1728-79 CE), Whitby, England.

At the top of the Lindos Acropolis, on the island of Rhodes, are the ruins of the 4th century BCE temple, dedicated to the goddess Athena Lindia, as well as the propylaea, monumental colonnade, entrance to the religious complex.

The 'Peasant Wedding Dance', a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, c. 1610 CE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)