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In January 2022, I was able to visit Azerbaijan and test my new Hasselblad X1D acquisition and take some shots in my favorite Xpan mode.
In January 2022, I was able to visit Azerbaijan and test my new Hasselblad X1D acquisition and take some shots in my favorite Xpan mode.
In January 2022, I was able to visit Azerbaijan and test my new Hasselblad X1D acquisition and take some shots in my favorite Xpan mode.
20/12/16. Abu Baker Al Siddique Road, Deira, Dubai. An Airbus A340-500.
Airline collection: www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/collections/72157603062570...
Old Town, Baku, Azerbaijan <3
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A Walk to Remember !!
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There are only three countries in South Caucasus: Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, each of the countries has problems. Armenia and Azerbaijan are very bad enemies. Georgia has problems with Russia.
Armenians can travel only to Georgia. Georgians can travel to both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azeris can travel only to Georgia. Now, every time I cross the border of Armenia and Georgia, I always think how it would be if that was the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, or maybe Georgia and Azerbaijan. I would like all of the three countries to become friends and good neighbors... I think, perhaps, it's some foreign forces that support and cause all these problems in South Caucasus, as together we (the three countries) would be a strong unit in the world..
* in this photo you can see a nice view from Armenia to Azerbaijan. I took it couple of days ago, when I was coming back from a trip to Georgia
Ancient Christian Albanian Church in Kish (Azerbaijan).
Kish , the oldest of Azerbaijani villages, is known for the unique ancient Albanian temple. It has a special status among Christian Albanian monuments. It is valuable not only as an architectural monument but also because of its outstanding historical significance. The official date of its birth is the 1st century AD when the territory of Azerbaijan was included into Caucasian part of Albania. Historians assume that the temple was founded by apostle Elisei who brought Christianity to Albania : " Elisei having received the Orient as his lot went from Jerusalem to Persia and started to preach with his three pupils; there he was prosecuted so he arrived in Kish where he founded a church and made a bloodless sacrifice"
During the peak of Christian religion on this territory the Temple was very popular; however, later it was forgotten and has miraculously survived. Even now the Temple amazes imagination with its beauty. The bright red spiked hip- roof "burns" in the sun. There is a cross on the tall dome. The thick walls of the Temple are decorated with small windows. It is cool inside the Temple even in the hottest weather, the air t ere is saturated with antiquity and the it seems like the God's presence is tangible. The visitors throw coins in a special niche making a wish. The internal walls of the Temple, unfortunately, have peeled off and decayed. But in one place there is still a layer of ancient plaster. People believe that if a coin stucks to this spot the wish will come true. The yard of the Temple is also interesting. There you will find an ancient burial place covered with a transparent plastic dome. One can see the ancient people's bones llying several meters deep. There are a number of such burials on the territory of the Temple. Apparently, there were buried attendants of the Temple or holy people who had deserved the right to be buried at the foot of "the House of the God ". The height of the buried people is amazing - two meters and taller.
Petroglyphs of Qobustan (Azerbaijan); a UNESCO World Heritage.
Settled since the 8th millennium BC, the area contains thousands of rock engravings spread over 100 square km depicting hunting scenes, people, ships, constellations, animals, etc. Qobustan's consecration in the world stage arrived in 2007, when UNESCO included the 'Qobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape' in the World Heritage list.
The oldest petroglyphs date from the 12th century BC. Later, the European invaders also left their marks: inscriptions left by Alexander the Great's cohorts in the 4th century BC and 2,000-year-old graffiti written by Trajan's Roman legionnaires!
The petroglyphs of Qobustan were discovered accidentally by quarry workers only in the 1930s. In addition to the rock carvings, traces of Mesolithic period occupation are to be seen, with numerous burial mounds and graves.
The local museum adjacent to the site houses the ornaments, flints, shells, ceramics, beads and primitive tools that were found inside the caves - often objects of non Caspian origin, evidence of ancient links with Europe and the Indian sub-continent. Based on the archeological finds and on content of the petroglyphs, recently it has be theorized that a connection exists between the ancient Azeris and the peoples of Scandinavia, which is not surprising at all, since some of the original habitants of the region, the Medes, were not a Turkic people, but an Indo-European people.
The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.
When Nogorno-Karabakh declared independence, split from Azerbaijan and joined Armenia, there was obviously a large-scale vehicle registration re-alignment program.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic
(These photos were taken on my phone during a camera-less trip around the Caucasus. They aren't the greatest quality, but Flickr is a repository for all of my travel photos and wouldn't feel complete without at least something from this beautiful part of the world)