
The merchants travelled in groups, caravans, and in the course of their
long journey they stopped at the so-called caravansaries for rest.
Here: Merchants resting in a caravansary in Bulgaria, 1840.

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Copperplate engraving.
Design: Th. Allom, Engraving: W.F. Mote.
Baratta, A., Constantinopoli effigiata e descritta..., Ôïrino 1840, p. 714,
table 44.
Athens, National Library Ã. Ð. 300.
© National Library, Athens.
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