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Kurtat gorge, one of most beautiful in Northern Ossetia, was stretched from northeast on a
southwest more than on 50 kms. Through
Kurtat gorge passed ancient caravan way in Transcaucasia. It down to a beginning ХХ of century was considered in
Ossetia as third on the importance after Military-Georgian and Military-Ossetian
roads. The gray-haired olden time has left on gorges, where lived
ossetian, set of original monuments of material culture. The towers meeting in a plenty in mountains by Northern
Ossetia, are the important architectural monuments. Towers different both under the form and on height. The low and wide towers were under construction under habitation, and high towers - for a defense and sentry purposes. The sentry towers on mountain
, as the certificates of bloody collisions and wars with foreign conquers stand. The fires on towers - were lit and faster than lightning the message about
approach of an enemy departed to gorges. ...
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Author Toma
Kulaeva Foto Vladimir Lesovodski Copyright © 1999-2008 |
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