Image: Abdul-Hamid villa Allatini

Description: Post-card by Matarasso, Saragoussi & Rousso, Salonique (Salonika, Thessaloniki) mailed on June 22nd. 1912, from Salonika, to New-York City. "It is now 8 P.M. and I am pretty well toasted. If the Sun had been visible an hour longer, I should have been done to a turn. The ex-Sultan is closely guarded here and no one is allowed near the house.The guard is changed every month to avoid bribery. Monte." Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918), known as the Red Sultan, was the last of the autocratic Ottoman Sultans, ruled from 1876 to April, 27th. 1909. He was deposed by the Young Turks and exiled to Salonika, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and placed under house arrest at the Villa Allatini, until Oct 17th., 1912, when the Greek army entered the city and incorporated it in the Greek state. He was moved to Constantinople and placed under house arrest at the Beylerbey Palace until his death on Feb. 10th. 1918.
Title: Abdul-Hamid villa Allatini
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