Turks of the village of Lefka, by Ronjat
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Turks of the village of Lefka, by Ronjat (Deschamps 1898, 182). Published with the permission of the Marfin Laiki Cultural Centre.
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396
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
Two Turks from Lefka a village mostly inhabited by Muslims; the two men stand side by side and wear similar traditional clothes, namely, light-coloured shirts, white many-folded trousers tied below the knees, a colourful sash at the waist, stockings and flat shoes. One of them also wears a fez set askew on the head; his striped stockings are tied under the knee. The stockings of the other man are patterned (Deschamps 1898, 182; Lazarides 2005, 166).
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The book Au pays d’Aphrodite, by Emile Deschamps, published in 1898, includes eighty illustrations based on sketches/drawings and photographs taken by the author.