Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman, 1854. Celebrations at Constantinople for the wedding of Fatma Sultan, aged 14, and Ali Galip Pasha. View of '...one of the bridal fetes, given in the rear of the Palace of Baltaliman, in a large field, where hundreds of tents, in the European style, had been dancers both play the castanets. The arena is attended by a crowd round the , seated on the ground, play guitars, clarionets, tambourines, and sing most uproariously. The same scene takes place before every tent simultaneously or succes


Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman, 1854. Celebrations at Constantinople for the wedding of Fatma Sultan, aged 14, and Ali Galip Pasha. View of '...one of the bridal fetes, given in the rear of the Palace of Baltaliman, in a large field, where hundreds of tents, in the European style, had been dancers both play the castanets. The arena is attended by a crowd round the , seated on the ground, play guitars, clarionets, tambourines, and sing most uproariously. The same scene takes place before every tent simultaneously or successively throughout the rest of the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.


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