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Baba Vida (Bulgarian: Баба Вида) is a medieval castle in Vidin in northwestern Bulgaria and the town's primary landmark. It consists of two concentric curtain walls and about nine towers of which three are preserved to their full medieval height, including the original battlements, and is the only entirely preserved medieval castle in the country. Baba Vida is 39 metres (128 ft) above sea level.
Baba Vida served as part of Vidin's main defensive installation during the course of the Middle Ages and acted as the citadel of the most important fortress of northwestern Bulgaria. The Baba Vida stronghold withstood an eight-month-long siege by Byzantine forces led by Basil II. It was enlarged and modernized during the rule of tsar Ivan Stratsimir (1356-1396), as whose capital it served. Between 1365 and 1369, the castle was in Hungarian hands. Vidin was suddenly attacked by the forces of Louis I of Hungary, but it took several months to conquer Baba Vida. In 1369, Ivan Sratsimir managed to regain control of his capital, albeit having to remain under Hungarian overlordship.
In 1388, the Ottomans invaded Sratsimir's lands and forced him to become their vassal. In 1396, he joined an anti-Ottoman crusade led by the King of Hungary, Sigismund, placing his resources at the crusaders' disposal. The crusade ended in the disastrous Battle of Nicopolis at Nikopol, Bulgaria, with the Ottomans capturing most of Sratsimir's domains shortly thereafter, in 1397.
The castle played a role during the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, serving as a weapon warehouse and a prison, also as residence for Osman Pazvantoğlu, and it has been no longer used for defensive purposes since the end of the 18th century.
Today, Baba Vida castle functions as a museum. Being a popular tourist attraction, the castle is being kept in repair. Thx to Wikipedia
Babà : a neapolitan rum-soaked sponge cake.
Traditionally, the babà is baked in a round tin similar to a bundt pan, and before being served is doused with a mixture of sugar and rum.
A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings ( tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms similar to those used for Bundt cakes.
Rum Baba and a short black - a perfect way to start the day.
Rum Baba from Gelobar in Lygon Street Brunswick East.
It's almost Halloween! Here's a fearsome Baba Yaga as illustrated in a Russian children's book form the turn of the last century.
Un amigo de otro color, de otro país, de otra religión y de otra cultura.
Y tan contentos y respetuosos.
Le pont Jacques-Chaban-Delmas, ou pont Bacalan-Bastide, à Bordeaux, est un pont franchissant la Garonne entre le Pont de pierre et le Pont d'Aquitaine.
Également appelé le pont BaBa (raccourci de Bacalan-Bastide)
Budapest
2023.12.22
The Tomb of Gül Baba
Budapest, Hungary
22.12.2023
Gül Baba's tomb (türbe) in Budapest, Hungary, is the northernmost Islamic pilgrimage site in the world.
Gül Baba was a member of the Bektás Dervish Order, who died in Ottoman Buda in 1541.(source: wikipedia)
The shrine is situated at an elevation of around 4,000 metres (13,123 ft). According to army folklore, Baba is a stickler for discipline and is known to admonish those who do not tow this line. A camp bed is kept for him and his boots are polished and uniform kept ready every night. The sheets are reportedly crumpled every morning and boots muddy by evening.
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India has a deep tradition of pilgrimage that dates back to the time of the Mahabarata, and remains popular today across all sectors of Indian Society. Amongst the most famous pilgrims of India are the Hindu Sadhus who spend their lives walking barefoot from shrine to shrine, begging for sustenance and support en route.
Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
A sadhu is usually referred to as Baba by common people. The word baba also means father, grandfather, or uncle in many Indian languages.
There are 4 to 5 million sadhus in India today and they are widely respected for their holiness, and sometimes feared for their curses. It is also thought that the austere practices of the sadhus help to burn off their karma and that of the community at large. Thus seen as benefiting society, sadhus are supported by donations from many people.
The following villas are already in the set:
# 01: Josef Fuchs @ House Munk [1932]
# 02: František Kerhart @ House Peřina [1933]
# 08: Oldřich Starý @ House Bouda [1932]
# 09: František Kerhart @ House Košťál [1933–34]
# 14:Ladislav Žák @ House Čeněk [1931–32]
# 15: František Zelenka @ House Zadák [1934]
# 16: Zdeněk Blažek @ House Lužná [1932]
# 21: Josef Gočár @ House Glücklich [1933-1934]
# 23: Ladislav Zak @ House Herain
# 24: Hana Kuçerová-Záveská @ House Balling [1930-1931]
# 25: Oldrich Stary @ House Hefman
# 26: Mart Stam + Jiri Palicka @ Palicka Villa [1929-1932]
# 27: Ladislav Machoň @ House Spisek [1932]
# 29: Oldrich Stary @ House Sutnar [1932]
# 31: Josef Gočár @ House Kytlica [1932-1933]
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The Baba Estate of the Czechoslovak Werkbund 1928-1940
Before I will start in the next days my excursion through this colony i will like to give a small introduction.
this makes sense also regarding that this colony is not as much famous as stuttgart or others dating from the same period of time.
After I found out by myself the right number to the right house and architect (i do not have a book about the colony and at the moment, it's kind of hard to get one - out of print), i will write these datas here in the image of the masterplan.
For sure i do not have for every house an image - some of them were just hardly to see on a slope, trees around and so on......... . The weather conditions: cloudy.
First day in Prague and i got the sudden idea to have a walk to this one and i was really amazed by the time which seems to stood still at this place.
This colony of exhibition housing unlike stuttgart and vienna estates was not municipally financed. private builders who were members of the czechoslovak werkbund chose architects from among the werkbund members.
the only exception was the dutchman mart stam.
the original idea to build typicized detached and row houses was not accepted by the clients who insisted on an individuell approach.
so this colony was built not with HOUSES ON MANIFESTOS but with houses as products of normal dialogue between the architect and the client.
that is why one finds here various forms of individual housing but no means models of communal residence. family houses with one flat, 2 different or the same flats or single family houses with a studio were bult.
masterplan design by : PAVEL JANAK
3 different street levels. houses standing in a chess pattern therefore EACH house looking to the south complete freely - an amazing view to old prague.
the conditions of most of them are brilliant.
let's start..........
Babahera-ice is one of the local foods in Akita. Pink is strawberry taste and yellow is banana taste. Baba-hera means, old lady (Baba) uses a spatula (Hera) to fill a cone with ice.
This is Santosh baba, a young and friendly Nath sadhu (a sect of Shiva devotees) i met on the holy island of Omkareshwar, Madhya-Pradesh, here at the Sangam (confluence of the Narmada and Kaveri rivers).
This photo was taken before the dam of Omkareshwar, which is part of the Sadar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada, was completed. Today, this part of the island is totally submerged.
Omkareshwar, Madhya-Pradesh, India. 2005
This Nepali Hindu baba, Ganga Das Baba, has been photographed by photographers from all over the world. I've seen him online many times, so it's hardly an original image, but he was a nice guy to me, so I got the shot, too! Nikon D7000.
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Biking past the rugby ground at Gubbbängen yesterday, I decided to stop and watch the game for a while. It was Babas vs Hammarby. Reading about the game on Exile's home page, it says: 12 different nationalities, 11 home-grown players, 2 debutants for Exiles seniors, what can go wrong on Saturday ?
Sai Baba is a saint revered by both Hindus and Muslims of India alike. More on religions of India www.amazon.com/Indian-Religions-Kids-Asha-Singh-ebook/dp/...