Svoboda, Alexander2017-01-072017-01-072013-03-05http://hdl.handle.net/1773/37648On the 15th of April, 1897, a 19 year-old European resident of Baghdad, named Alexander Richard Svoboda, set out on a long journey to Europe by caravan, boat and train. From a large and influential family of merchants, artists, and explorers settled in Ottoman Iraq since the end of the 18th century, Alexander traveled in the company of his parents and a departing British diplomat accompanied by his retinue. They followed a circuitous route through the Middle East to Cairo and thence to Europe on a three and a half month journey which Alexander described day-by-day in a journal written in the Iraqi Arabic of his time.Alexander Svoboda travel journal- explains the language used in the journal with transcription chart.enAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/19th CenturyBaghdadSyriaIraqOttoman EmpireEgyptParisArabicTravel JournalSvobodaArchaeologyPalmyradura EuroposVaticanBook