Chufut-Kale is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins. It is a national monument of Crimean Karaites culture just 3 km ...
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Chufut-Kale is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins. It is a national monument of Crimean Karaites culture just 3 km east of Bakhchysarai.
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Suburb of Bakhchiserai, a town in the government of Taurida, Russia. It is called by the Tatars "Kirk-er" (Place of Forty), and by the Karaites. to which ...
Rising 200m, this long and bluff plateau houses a honeycomb of caves and structures where people took refuge for centuries. It's wonderful to explore,…
Mar 16, 2014 · The caves were surprisingly habitable, with stone benches carved along the wall, cooking holes in the floor, and possibly storage holes, too.
The fortress is most famous now as locale of a major Kariate settlement during middle ages. But it was also for many years the capital of the Crimean khans.
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Fantastic place, caves, fortress and cities (old/new). Great mix of cultures: pagan, muslim, judish. Unique nations combination placed by great people ...
The cave fortress of Chufut-Kale is located 2.8 km from Bakhchisarai, at an altitude of 600 m above sea level. Almost the entire city is carved into the ...
CHUFUT-KALE (Turk. "Jew Castle "), ancient town in Crimea near Bakhchisarai, between Sevastopol and Simferopol, now in ruins. It was probably originally a Greek ...
1,622 results for chufut-kale in all · Chufut-Kale, a medieval cave city-fortress in Crimea, Bakhchisaray. · beautiful views of chufut-kale in Bakhchisarai.
They are the descendants of settlers who arrived in Crimea in the thirteenth–sixteenth centuries from the Caucasus; Spain, from where they were ...