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Dead City (Bald Mountain) Yurkovka

Dead City (Bald Mountain) Yurkovka

Dead City is located on Bald Mountain, near the village in the Zaporozhye region Yurkovka. In addition, the city has also other names, according to historical data. Among them - Equine water and seven mosques.

Discovered the remains of the ancient city relatively recently, in 2008, while studying the ancient maps of Zaporozhye historians and ethnographers.

History of the Dead city (Bald Mountain)

Discover mention of the dead city could, studying maps of the 17th century, Zaporozhye. There is evidence that it was the city of the Golden Horde, who settled along the road of the Silk Road, which existed from the 3rd to the 16th century. After his demise, the city also lost its functional value and gradually abandoned it. It is through this city was the path of merchants and craftsmen who came from the Crimea to China and vice versa.

The town itself was quite large, there lived people of different nationalities: Ukrainians, Georgians, Mongols, Tatars and others. By the way, one of the names of the city - Seven mosques on hunches historians named in honor of the fact that in the city there were seven shrines.

Archaeologists have managed to find five buildings, among them - a mosque and neighboring buildings, which are likely to serve bath. This is due to the fact that according to the customs of Muslims near the mosque must be present bath to wash.

Dead city for all time existence was destroyed three times. At first his troops destroyed Tamerlane, and then the remains of the city in the 18th century destroyed the army of the Russian Empire, and the last time it happened not so long ago - in the 30s of the 20th century. Then the local people disassembled the remains of buildings to build schools, houses and other structures. After that, you forget about the city for many years.

Today, scientists have found a mosque, where archaeologists have concentrated effort to learn about the long-past events. Excavations of the walls and it is unclear what kind of a mosque. It was possible only to find out that it is big enough and it was used brown brick building, it is perfectly preserved to this day.

How to get to the dead city in Yurkovke

From the train station to the Zaporozhye Yurkovki you can drive on the highway T0803. The distance will be about 75 km.

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