Arnaut soldier, Ottoman Empire

An Arnaut Soldier, viewed from the side, with a musket slung over his shoulder. He has a pistol tucked into his waistband and carries a tobacco pipe with a very long stem in his right hand. Arnauts in modern Turkey are people of Albanian descent. Historically in the Ottoman Empire, the word often referred to mercenary soldiers from Albania or from the surrounding mountainous region., source: Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt by William Wittman d. 1815

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13 x 16 inches / 32 x 41 cm

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