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Caption: Kara Fatima Khanum arrives in Constantinople with a large retinue of mounted warriors of her tribe, at the start of the Crimean war. She was a female chieftain of a Kurdish tribe from Marash who personally commanded a Kurdish contingent in the Crimean War to prove her loyalty to the Ottoman state following the imprisonment of her husband, the tribal leader. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859
Credit: Album / Ken Welsh/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
Image size: 4087 × 5315 px | 62.1 MB
Print size: 34.6 × 45.0 cm | 1609.1 × 2092.5 in (300 dpi)