{"id":47026,"date":"2024-12-16T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47026"},"modified":"2024-12-15T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:22:40","slug":"fortresses-of-khwarazm-ayaz-kala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/fortresses-of-khwarazm-ayaz-kala\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortresses of Khwarazm: Ayaz-Kala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khwarazm\">Khwarazm<\/a><\/strong> region, in the lower valley of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amu_Darya\">Amu Darya<\/a><\/strong>, was known in ancient times as the \u2018oasis of fifty fortresses\u2019. Of these fortresses, built over a very long period, perhaps the best known are those at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayaz-Kala\">Ayaz-Kala<\/a><\/strong>. There are three on this site.<br>Ayaz-Kala 1, built between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, is located on a hill overlooking Ayaz-Kala 2, which dates from the 6th to 8th centuries AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Isabelle Vincent<\/strong> (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khwarazm region, in the lower valley of the Amu Darya, was known in ancient times as the \u2018oasis of fifty fortresses\u2019. Of these fortresses, built over a very long period, perhaps the best known are those at Ayaz-Kala. There are three on this site.Ayaz-Kala 1, built between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4534,4562,4156,1301,4002,3974],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-47026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-amu-darya","tag-ayaz-kala","tag-fortress","tag-karakalpakstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47030,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47026\/revisions\/47030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47026"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}