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The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch paying a state visit, Mardin

Place: Mardin · today Türkiye
Date: 1890s

Photograph of the bearded patriarch riding a decorated horse under a parasol held by an attendant, with a deacon walking beside, on his way to call on the Ottoman governor. Parry describes the procession through the bazaar of Mardin.

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Parry, Six Months in a Syrian Monastery (1895), via Internet Archive (Columbia University microfilm)

Parry, Oswald Hutton · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch paying a state visit, Mardin

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