Čia sėdėjome. Kalbėjau su kurdais. Apie kurdų gyvenimą, apie kalbą, apie žemės drebėjimus, apie dainas.
Dijarbakyras – miestas pietryčių Anatolijoje, siekiantis 7000 metų. Buvusi aramėjų karalystė, Bit – Zamanio sostinė. Hurrai, asirai, persai, romėnai, bizantiečiai, abasidai, seldžiukai ir osmanai – daug tautų valdė Diyarbakır ir tapo 33 skirtingų civilizacijų tėvyne. Dijarbakir buvo šilko kelio svarbi vieta, vartai iš Azijos į Mesopotamiją, prekybos ir kultūros centras. Čia buvo monumentaliausi Seniausia prie Tigro upės Dijarbakyro pilis, 5,5 km ilgio gynybinė siena su vartais ir bokštais, panašu, kad Vilniaus ir Trakų gynybinės sienos buvo panašios, VII a. Ulu Cami mečetė, XII a. medresės, karavanų punktai – karavansarajai, gražiausi tiltai, Hevselio sodai – miesto kultūros ir istorijos paveldo objektai.
Nežinau kas likę. Po žemės drebėjimo, po mūšių.
Diyarbakir
We were sitting here. I spoke to the Kurds. About Kurdish life, about language, about earthquakes, about songs.
Diyarbakir is a city in south-eastern Anatolia. Formerly an Aramean kingdom, Bit is the capital of Zaman. Hurrians, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Abbasids, Seljuks and Ottomans – many peoples have ruled Diyarbakır, making it the home of 33 different civilisations. Diyarbakır was an important place on the Silk Road, a gateway from Asia to Mesopotamia, and a centre of trade and culture. The oldest castle on the Tigris River, Diyarbakır Castle, a 5.5 km long defensive wall with gates and towers, which seems to have been similar to the defensive walls of Vilna and Trakai, the seventh-century Ulu Cami Mosque, the twelfth-century madrasas, caravanserais, the most beautiful bridges, the Hevsel Gardens, and the Sipahiler Historical Market were the city’s most important monuments of cultural and historical heritage.
The Hevsel Gardens are located between the Diyarbakır walls and the Tigris River. Used for thousands of years as an agricultural area, it was the oldest grain field in Mesopotamia. These fertile lands have been used since ancient times to grow all kinds of cereals, various vegetables and fruits, as well as the famous Diyarbakır watermelon, whose fame comes from the potassium nitrate of the pigeon. Hevsel Gardens is the bird paradise of south-eastern Anatolia; more than 180 bird species, numerous animals, otters, foxes, badgers, squirrels and porcupines.
Diyarbakır Watermelon and Culture Festival
The defensive walls and gardens were inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2015.
But I don’t know how many of these beauties were left after the earthquake, after the battles.
