Caption

Murder of the French and German consuls in Thessaloniki. A Christian (Bulgarian) girl wanted to convert to Islam, whereupon Christian residents abducted her to prevent this. This triggered massive unrest amongst the city's Muslim population. The French consul, Jules Moulin, and the German consul, Henry Abbott, went to a mosque to calm the situation and mediate. There, however, they were surrounded by an enraged, armed mob and eventually brutally lynched in an outbuilding, illustration, reproduction of a 19th-century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of the original unknown, historical

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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26I50_145

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No

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Royalty free

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92.4Mb (30.8Mb) / 19.0in x 18.9in / 5696 x 5668 (300dpi)

Keywords

concept no people black huge old-fashioned obsolete date mosque building sacral building city urban history drawing Christianity faith Islam religion crime criminal accurate social girl murder death hunt German symbolic picture classic illustration Christian depiction illegality religious antiquity dead historic Islamic female french old town symbolic big armed restored population contemporary nostalgia drawn retro murdered consul person murderer thriller file authentic woodcut dispatch restoration Bulgarian former Muslim illegal nostalgic Germany vintage sketch crime fiction printing method travel photography Thessaloniki replication Downtown Central Europe succumbed 19th century Historic illustration Historic quarter assassination Wood engraving Theme Social topic deserted giant oldfashioned outdated structure sacred building town urban environment belief criminality precise lass hunting symbolic image classical representation ancient times historical historic center large Retro style Human being assassinator real xylograph kill assassinate reconstruction German Federal Republic crime story Salonica midtown Middle Europe killed nineteenth century Historical illustration Historic district homicide Subject nobody gigantic old fashioned antiquated construction religious building municipal exact historic centre great People killer realistic woodprint Republic of Germany reproduction city center hunted 1900s Topic enormous outmoded out of date historic city center genuine replica city centre massive historic city centre copy town center historic old town Town centre historical old town Inner city old city Inner town old district Old town area concepts dates mosques buildings cities drawings religions criminals socially girls murders deaths symbolic pictures illustrations depictions illegalities Altertum females old towns crimes populations consuls persons murderers files woodcuts murdering restorations formerly printing methods 19th-century Historic illustrations Historic quarters classically historically human killing assassinating reconstructions Historical illustrations Historic districts constructions religious buildings replicas old historic town no one on black hunts abstract depicting historical image history image history images Altstadt symbol individual individuals restoration work FRG BRD vintage-styled Concept image Symbol image Symbol photo Theme picture conceptual photo representing historic part symbolise symbolize symbolizing symbolising humans kills assassinates in the centre of