Ottoman Empire, Christians, 1873

Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of the Islands of the Archipelago, Ottoman Empire. (1) Christian resident of Mcetelin (Lesbos) (2) Christian woman of Mcetelin (Lesbos) and (3) Christian woman of SumbC ki (SCimi) Island. The Ottoman Empire's treatment of its Christian subjects varied during its history. During the golden age of the empire, the millet system promised its Christian subjects better treatment than non-Christian populations experienced in Christian Europe, while during the decline and fall of the empire, the Christian minorities suffered a number of atrocities. Notable cases of persecution include the Batak massacre, the Hamidian massacres, the Adana massacre, the ethnic cleansing of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913 and the Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide and Assyrian Genocide, all of which occurred during the last few decades of the empire under the influence of Pan-Turkism

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12697078

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47686064

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3214px x 4200px (3.2MB)

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LOC/Science Source/Mary Evans