Showing posts with label Kazakhstan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kazakhstan. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor,Kazakhstan.




This property is a 5,000 km section of the extensive Silk Roads network, stretching from Chang’an/Luoyang, the central capital of China in the Han and Tang dynasties, to the Zhetysu region of Central Asia. It took shape between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD and remained in use until the 16th century, linking multiple civilizations and facilitating far-reaching exchanges of activities in trade, religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, technological innovation, cultural practices and the arts. The thirty-three components included in the routes network include capital cities and palace complexes of various empires and Khan kingdoms, trading settlements, Buddhist cave temples, ancient paths, post houses, passes, beacon towers, sections of The Great Wall, fortifications, tombs and religious buildings.
 China
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Date of Inscription: 2014
 Ref: 1442-Source(Unesco.Org)
Thank you Sergey  for the beautiful card and nice stamp.
2017 Stamp-The 25th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations with Belarus
                    Joint Issue with Belarus

Sunday, 7 October 2018

Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan.




This site comprises of  two protected areas: Naurzum State Nature Reserve and Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve totaling 450,344 ha. It features wetlands of outstanding importance for migratory water birds, including globally threatened species, among them the extremely rare Siberian white crane, the Dalmatian pelican, Pallas’s fish eagle, to name but a few. These wetlands are key stopover points and crossroads on the Central Asian flyway of birds from Africa, Europe and South Asia to their breeding places in Western and Eastern Siberia. The 200,000 ha Central Asian steppe areas included in the property provide a valuable refuge for over half the species of the region’s steppe flora, a number of threatened bird species and the critically endangered Saiga antelope, formerly an abundant species much reduced by poaching. The property includes two groups of fresh and salt water lakes situated on a watershed between rivers flowing north to the Arctic and south into the Aral-Irtysh basin
Date of Inscription: 2008
Ref: 1102r 
Source-(Unesco.Org)
Thank you Sergey for the nice heritage site card.
2018 Stamp- Definitives - Bear

Friday, 30 September 2016

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi,Kazakhstan.


The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yaswi, a distinguished Sufi master of the 12th century, is situated in southern Kazakhstan, in the north-eastern section of the city of Turkestan (Yasi). Built between 1389 and 1405, by order of Timur (Tamerlane), the ruler of Central Asia, it replaced a smaller 12th century mausoleum. Construction of the building was halted in 1405, with the death of Timur, and was never completed.
Rectangular in plan and 38.7 meters in height, the mausoleum is one of the largest and best-preserved examples of Timurid construction. Received with thanks from Yevgeniya second card from her.
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Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly,Kazakhstan.


Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili mountains, is a remarkable concentration of some 5,000 petroglyphs (rock carvings) dating from the second half of the second millennium BC to the beginning of the 20th century. Distributed among 48 complexes with associated settlements and burial grounds, they are testimonies to the husbandry, social organization and rituals of pastoral peoples. Human settlements in the site are often multilayered and show occupation through the ages.This beautiful card was sent by Yevgeniya
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