The ancient Kurdish Amida

 

 

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Amidas city wall and Tigris

 

 

 

The city centrum in 1943 (Hola Dîlanê)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parts of city (Derê Serayê)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ruins of the ancient Kurdish palace

 

 

 

 

 

Boraxane - The peagon house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ruins of the magnicifant Virgin Mary Church from the 3rd Century

 

 

 

 

 

Desapearing church towers by the time

 

 

 

 

 



The beautiful tower of the Saint Gregoros - destroyed in 1916

 

 

 

The ancient School of the Kurdish Marvanids, today a mosque

 

 

 

 

Caravan Serai on the Silk Route (15th Century)

 

 

 

 

 

Destroyed green areas (Kurdistan's forests) on transport on Tigris

 

 

 

 

Kolana Mazin (Papûra "Gazî")

 

 

 

 

Amazing minarets

 

 

 

 

Aquaduct bringing water from the Karaj mountain

 

 

 

 

Derê Chiyê - Port of Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANCIENT CITY WALL OF KURDISH AMIDA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Foundation For Kurdish Library & Museum