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Black Sea, Turkey and Georgia_National Geographic Magazine 9/2002 and 5/2001 82 images Created 1 Apr 2021

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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • An aerial view of the cloud-shrouded Caucasus mountains.
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  • Chairs sit under an arbor in a field.
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  • Young men leap from a high cliff into the Black Sea below.
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  • A woman's hand washed in blood after a sheep sacrifice.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Turkish coal miners enjoy a break from their hard work.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Two sisters gather around a blue truck.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle at a checkpoint in former Soviet Georgia.
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  • Rifat Pinarbas readies his nets on the family fishing boat.
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  • An aerial view of the port city of Sinop at twilight.
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  • A shepherd tends his flock in the mountain summer pastures.
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  • Adem Keismal, left, works on a generator that is powered by snowmelt.
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  • A family churns butter while watching television.
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  • The Sumela Monastery clings to mountain cliff in the Pontic Mountains.
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  • Islamic Turks mourn a dead relative.
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  • A clergyman studies inside a 13th-century Orthodox church.
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  • A boy awaits circumcision, a Muslim rite of passage
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  • A mechanic works on the engine of an old car.
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  • A man guzzles beer from a  goat horn during a men's summer feast in the Tusheti mountains.
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  • A Svan clan leader sits by the fire in his house.
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  • A village lays at the foot of a mountain range.
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  • An altar boy holds a candle inside a dimly-lit church.
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  • An elderly woman stands on a porch with hanging laundry.
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  • Two men look at two sacrificed sheep.
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  • A man carries a wood plank while working at the Sumela Monastery.
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  • The hand-carved ribs of a Black Sea fishing vessel called a cektirme.
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  • A crowd gathers on the black sand Karakum Beach.
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  • Men in Sinop's traditional hamam, or public bath.
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  • Surf crashes against Sinop's city walls.
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  • Archaeologists unearth a Bronze Age skeleton on the Black Sea coast.
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  • A boy bounces a soccer ball of his head while playing on a field near a large statue of a man with two horses.
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  • An unmanned submersible conducts research in the Black Sea.
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  • Underwater explorer Robert Ballard with scientists and  crew.
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  • A miner works his way through a jumble of logs in an underground mine.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • A group of Turkish women eat a meal of potatoes, green beans, and bread outdoors.
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  • A rainbow graces the countryside where two Turkish women walk.
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  • A Turkish woman with a sickle in her hand climbs out onto a tree limb.
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  • Prayer candles put on one of the Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti
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  • View from the Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti looking towards another Svan rural village.
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  • A foggy sunrise over water.
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  • The Tarhan family, Cepni people, make hay.
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  • Pagan animal sacrifice beneath 12th century tower in Svaneti.
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  • Pagan animal sacrifice beneath 12th century tower in Svaneti.
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  • An aerial view of the Kızılırmak River
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  • Children gather firewood in a rock-strewn valley. Yayla culture involves go up and down the mountains looking for forage for your animals.
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  • A Svaneti family around the dinner table.
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  • Svaneti, a small bustling village sits below sharp, snow-covered mountains.
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  • Svans compete to see who can pick up the biggest rock.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Plastic store in the Caucasus Mountains.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti. Locals gather around a campfire in Tusheti.
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  • Animal sacrifice under the medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • A man stands near butchered animals at an outdoor slaughtering site.
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  • A Turkish man stands nearby as cows go up the mountain for better pasture.
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  • A fourth-century B.C. brain surgery.
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  • Young men leap from a high cliff into the Black Sea below.
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  • A boy bounces a soccer ball of his head while playing on a field near a large statue of a man with two horses.
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  • A shepherd pours tea for other Yayla shepherds.
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  • Chairs sit under an arbor in a field.
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  • A Monastery Pontic Mountains.
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  • A Svan home with portraits of parents.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • Circassian dancers in a Black Sea village prepare for a festival.
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  • A fourth-century B.C. Sinop tablet.
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  • A fourth-century B.C. Greek coin
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  • A fourth-century B.C. Sinop coin depicts an eagle clutching a dolphin, a symbol of this port where mountains meet the sea.
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  • A gilded icon of the archangel Michael, painted in the 19th century, once hung in an Eastern Orthodox Church in Sinop.
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  • An oil lamp of an African head comes from Roman times, perhaps the second centu ry, A.D.
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  • A close view of a Bronze Age mother-goddess figurine made of clay.
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  • An ancient Byzantine coin with a depiction of a ruler.
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  • Bronze Age war ax adorned with a horse from the Black Sea region.
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  • A necklace of gold turtles from the fifth century B.C.
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  • Bracelet of gold adorned with ram's heads from the fifth century B.C.
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