Suleiman crosses to Baghdad
Date Description Source Reference
16th century? Six bell tents inside the perimeter of a white crenellated fabric wall held up by guy ropes. 

Bell tent with red rounded apex (vent cover?), blue roof with white and gold decoration, black and gold band above roof edge, roof edge decoration appears to be made of short section hanging from the roof edge made of orange fabric, a blue flap of cloth hangs from under the roof edge, orange walls with yellow decoration. 

Bell tent with dark blue rounded apex with white floral decoration (vent cover?), red band then the res to the roof is done in a lighter blue with black floral decoration, black and gold band above roof edge, pink roof edge decoration in short sections, dark blue walls with gold and white floral decoration. 

Bell tent with dark blue with white decoration rounded apex, orange roof with red floral decoration, black and gold band above roof edge, blue and pink roof edge decoration in small sections, orange walls with yellow dot decoration in patterns of four, a dark blue flap of cloth with white dots hangs from the roof edge (or it could be the inner wall revealed). 

Bell tent with pink vent and part of the off white roof is revealed. 

Bell tent with yellow vent and part of the orange roof is revealed. 

Bell tent with pink vent and orange roof with red decoration is revealed.

“The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman crosses to Baghdad. He captured the city in 1534.” 

Photograph by Sonia Halliday. 

Powell, A., The Rise of Islam, London, 1979, p. 37.

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