Alan settlement

Nizhny Arkhyz settlement, Arkhyz settlement, Nizhny Arkhyz Ancient Town
russia, Arhiz
Rating 6.0
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Alan settlement

Nizhny Arkhyz settlement, Arkhyz settlement, Nizhny Arkhyz Ancient Town
russia, Arhiz
The Nizhne-Arkhyz settlement is an archaeological monument of the 10th-12th centuries, the remains of the large Alanian city of Maas in Karachay-Cherkessia. The ancient settlement extends over an area of ​​94.5 hectares, there are three streets, a number of lanes, the remains of stone walls, the ruins of churches, chapels, residential buildings, outbuildings, burial grounds and even pre-Christian sanctuaries. On the territory of the complex there are also three cross-domed temples of the Abkhazian-Byzantine architecture of the X century (Zelenchuk temples), a cult-astronomical structure - a stone circle (solar observatory-calendar), a rock image of the face of Christ and a stone idol.
At present, the Nizhne-Arkhyz settlement is included in the Karachay-Cherkess Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve.

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All reviews (1)
Traveled 10 years ago
Rating 6
I do not like all sorts of "ruins of the chapel" there, much closer to me sights of a natural nature. But, when the weather did not allow going to the mountains, in order not to waste time, I had to join the cultural values. We went on an excursion to the Alanian settlement. Of the objects examined, the most interesting for us, as photographers, were two churches of Byzantine architecture, which were well preserved (or restored) from the outside. There is absolutely nothing inside. It is surprising, of course, that Christian churches have survived at all in the Muslim region.
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