Ganja
The country's second city: Nizami's home, Javad Khan's fortress, the town of the bottle house.
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Place
Khinalig
A village two thousand metres up, with its own language and a herding route on the UNESCO list.
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How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
Khinalig sits in the mountains of the Quba district. Its people speak Khinalug, a Caucasian language spoken nowhere else.
In 2023 the cultural landscape of Khinalig and the “Köç Yolu” transhumance route were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Photo: Nizinuri · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the site
- 01The villageHouses, roofs, quarters
- 02LanguageKhinalug and how it is studied
- 03Köç YoluThe seasonal herding route
- 04TravellingThe road, the season, where to stay
