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The draughtsman, Huseyn Tevfiq, was a Lieutenant attached to the Supreme Military Command, and his name and seal impression (dated AH 1295/AD 1878) appear at the lower left.
The view shows the city walls and fortifications, the Customs House, the Quarantine, the Arsenal, Government House and the Governor's mansion, as well as five major mosques and the foreign legations of Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece and Spain.