{"id":47800,"date":"2025-09-05T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47800"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:07:25","slug":"kyrk-kyz-kala-ancient-fortress-of-khwarazm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/kyrk-kyz-kala-ancient-fortress-of-khwarazm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrk Kyz Kala, ancient fortress of Khwarazm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/karakalpakstan.travel\/history-and-culture\/archeological-monuments\/?setlang=en\">Kyrk Kyz Kala<\/a><\/strong> is a fortress that forms part of a group of fortifications very close to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/fortresses-of-khwarazm-ayaz-kala\/?noredirect=en-GB\">Ayaz Kala<\/a><\/strong> site, which was once part of a large suburban complex. The fortress was probably built around the 4th century BCE, after the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Achaemenid_Empire\">Achaemenid Persian Empire<\/a><\/strong> lost control of the region. It may have been abandoned afterwards, but was reused during the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kushan_Empire\">Kushan <\/a><\/strong>period (30-375) and again from the 7th or 8th century onwards.<br>Kyrk Kyz means \u201cforty girls\u201d, but no one knows who they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credit : <strong>Hubert-Felix Delattre<\/strong><\/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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrk Kyz Kala is a fortress that forms part of a group of fortifications very close to the Ayaz Kala site, which was once part of a large suburban complex. The fortress was probably built around the 4th century BCE, after the Achaemenid Persian Empire lost control of the region. It may have been abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4156,1301,4870,4002,3974],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-47800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-fortress","tag-karakalpakstan","tag-khwarazm","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47800","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=47800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47806,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47800\/revisions\/47806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47800"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}