View of Kashan, in Iran, in the early XII/18th century. The engraving is from a book of travels published in Amsterdam in 1123/1711. Though not to be relied upon in detail, it gives a good impression ...
The great walled city of Kano, the largest commercial center in West Africa, at the time Clapperton's visit there in 1824. Its heavily fortified perimeter measured twelve miles, enclosing a population of about forty thousand.
Photographic view of Tripoli in 1905 from the roof of the French consulate looking seaward. The cityscape changed little from the Barbary Wars era, with one notable exception, the great minaret of the Gurgi mosque.
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