Adana massacre
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The Adana massacre occurred in the Adana vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in April 1909. Many Armenians were slain by Ottoman Muslims in the city of Adana as the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 triggered a s
Adana Christian Quarter
An Armenian woman from Adana, tortured and maimed by knife wounds
Bodies of Armenians killed during a clash in Adana.
This page from a 1911 publication contrasts the ruins of the Armenian quarter of Adana with an untouched Turkish district nearby.
Abdul Hamid II
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Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a period of decline w
Adana massacre
…officials, Islamic clerics, and supporters of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). After revolutionary groups had secured the deposition of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the restoration of the Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire) in 1908, a military revolt directed against the Committee of Union and Progress…
Prince Abdul Hamid at Balmoral Castle in 1867, accompanying his uncle Sultan Abdulaziz during his visit to Western Europe between 21 June 1867 – 7 August 1867.
Opening of the first Ottoman Parliament (Meclis-i Umumî), at the Dolmabahçe Palace in 1877
Ottoman troops under Romanian attack at the Siege of Plevna (1877) in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
Şehzade (Prince) Abdul Hamid in 1868.