PhotographAA-0083

Kala Ismail Agha, near the site of a massacre

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1910s

The rocky hill of Kala Ismail Agha (Castle of Ismail) with a walled enclosure and a line of people in the foreground. The caption says a great massacre described in the book took place near the base of the mountain.

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Shahbaz, The Rage of Islam (1918), via Internet Archive

Yonan H. Shahbaz · Public domain (published 1918)

Kala Ismail Agha, near the site of a massacre

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