The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest - Istanbul, Turkey
The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest (Belgrad Ormanı) lying 15km north-west of Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1839 as one of the three dams that were constructed in the Taksim water conveyance system that supplies water to the region where the non-Muslim Ottoman population and Westerners lived
Picture No
10980769
Media ID
45577564
Size
5333px x 3844px
(2.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photograph by Sebah & Joaillier in a Max Fruchtermann collection (bound) on Constantinople
Date
circa 1908
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