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Persian Paradises at PerilAzerbaijan, Khoy and Salamas

Persian Paradises at Peril: Azerbaijan, Khoy and Salamas [Because of its strategic geopolitical location Historic Landscapehistoric territorial landscape (HTL), the land of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan North West Iran has been the scene for several military conquests throughout its long history, notably between the Urartu, Median and the Achaemenid civilisations, Sassanid and Byzantine empires, Ottomans and Safavid kingdoms, Russian Tsars and Qajarid Kings, as well as USSR proxies and the US-backed Iranian government. Today, this vast historic territory is divided between several countries such as Armenia, AzerbaijanAzerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. The southeast part below the Araxes River encompasses several Iranian provinces. This chapter examines the notion of a territorial landscape vision of the West AzerbaijanAzerbaijan region that is linked with the historical, geographical, architectural and folkloric layers in both tangible and intangible aspects from the Urartu period to Qajar. By focusing on the cultural landscapesCultural Landscapesof KhoyKhoy Cultural Landscape-SalmasSalmas Cultural Landscape in the South AzerbaijanAzerbaijan, the chapter explains how territorial landscape is shaped in its historic-geographic development that has become a setting for human-built elements such as fortresses and settlements; roads and bridges linking these settlements; and green areas surrounding them. The inaccessible parts of this cultural landscapeCultural Landscapes have been the setting for intangible interpretations such as being the legendary and the mythical landing place of Noah’s Ark.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Persian Paradises at PerilAzerbaijan, Khoy and Salamas

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Fardanesh, Farzin; Arefian, Fatemeh Farnaz
Tehrani, Farhad; Mehralizadeh, Sara
Persian Paradises at Peril — Mar 31, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-62549-8
Pages
161 –182
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-62550-4_9
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Abstract

[Because of its strategic geopolitical location Historic Landscapehistoric territorial landscape (HTL), the land of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan North West Iran has been the scene for several military conquests throughout its long history, notably between the Urartu, Median and the Achaemenid civilisations, Sassanid and Byzantine empires, Ottomans and Safavid kingdoms, Russian Tsars and Qajarid Kings, as well as USSR proxies and the US-backed Iranian government. Today, this vast historic territory is divided between several countries such as Armenia, AzerbaijanAzerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. The southeast part below the Araxes River encompasses several Iranian provinces. This chapter examines the notion of a territorial landscape vision of the West AzerbaijanAzerbaijan region that is linked with the historical, geographical, architectural and folkloric layers in both tangible and intangible aspects from the Urartu period to Qajar. By focusing on the cultural landscapesCultural Landscapesof KhoyKhoy Cultural Landscape-SalmasSalmas Cultural Landscape in the South AzerbaijanAzerbaijan, the chapter explains how territorial landscape is shaped in its historic-geographic development that has become a setting for human-built elements such as fortresses and settlements; roads and bridges linking these settlements; and green areas surrounding them. The inaccessible parts of this cultural landscapeCultural Landscapes have been the setting for intangible interpretations such as being the legendary and the mythical landing place of Noah’s Ark.]

Published: Mar 31, 2021

Keywords: Azerbaijan; Urartu; Historic territorial landscape; HTL; Cultural landscapes

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