Province of Trabzon: Photo gallery

We present, in this section, pictures taken in the Trabzon vilayet (province), the majority of which are photographs and engravings relating to the Ottoman era. We have presented the province with its relevant various sub-sections with the object of making them more easily accessible. In the future we will present, alongside them, various themed articles prepared by the editorial board about the Trabzon province. Thus this method of presentation is of a temporary nature which will last until the articles have been prepared. It should be noted that we have worked on the old photographs in this section with the aim of improving their colour, tone and quality.

Ordu. Early 1900’s. Diran Antreassian (seated) with his sisters (from left) Hayguhi, (name unknown), and Imasduhi (Source: Ara Ugurluoglu collection, Anthering, Salzburg)

Captions and sources:
1) Trabzon/Trebizond: The Armenian cemetery (Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice)
2) Trabzon/Trebizond: A view of the town (Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice)
3) Trabzon/Trebizond: A view of the town (Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice)
4) Trabzon/Trebizond: A view of the town (Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice)
5) Trabzon/Trebizond: The Armenian monastery of Sourp Pergich (Holy Savior) (Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice)

Captions and sources:
1) Trabzon/Trebizond (Source: Michel Paboudjian collection, Paris)
2) Giresun/Girason (Source: Michel Paboudjian collection, Paris)
3) Trabzon/Trebizond (Source: Michel Paboudjian collection, Paris)

Isguhi Antreassian from Ordu and her husband (name unknown). Photograph taken in Trabzon/Trebizond by ‘Cacouli frères' (Source: Ara Ugurluoglu collection, Anthering, Salzburg)

Captions and sources:
1) Trabzon/Trebizond: Panorama (Source: Henry Binder, Au Kurdistan, en Mésopotamie et en Perse, Paris, 1887)
2) Trabzon/Trebizond: Panorama (Source: Rev. Edwin M. Bliss, Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities, London, 1896)

Captions and sources:
1) Trabzon/Trebizond: A general view (Source: H. Hepworth, Through Armenia on Horseback, London, 1898)
2) Trabzon/Trebizond: A general view (Source: Edmund Ollier, Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War, Vol. I, London, 1890)

Trabzon/Trebizond, 1910. Diran and Imasduhi Antreassian (brother and sister) from Ordu (Source: Ara Ugurluoglu collection, Anthering, Salzburg)

Captions and sources:
1) Trabzon/Trebizond (Source: Robert Curzon, Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, 1854, London)
2) Trabzon/Trebizond (Source: Christine Gardon collection, Berlin)

Trabzon/Trebizond. Members of an Armenian family (Source: Vahan Ishkhanyan collection, Yerevan)

Captions and sources:
1) Samsun: Panorama (Source: Ferdinand Brockes, Quer durch Klein-Asien, Gütersloh, 1900)
2) Samsun (Source: Eberhard-Joachim Graf von Westarp, Unter Halbmond und Sonne, Berlin)

Samsun, 1913: Local Armenians attending a ceremony organised by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (Source: Nubarian Library, Paris)

Gümüşhane/Gumushkhane: A general view (Source: Charles Texier, Description de l’Arménie, la Perse et la Mésopotamie, Première Partie, Paris, 1842)

Gümüşhane/Gumushkhane: The Armenian Monastery of Sourp Pergitch (Holy Savior) (Source: H. A. Eprigian, Illustrated indigenous dictionary [in Armenian], Part 1, Venice, St Lazzaro, 1900)