Tepe-Kermen – The Ancient Cave City

Three km from Chufut-Kale lies Tepe-Kermen – the Ancient Cave City.   The Church inside Tepe-Kermen …   … “with two entrances and three windows. In the altar were six roughly worked columns, of which only three survived; outside the altar, carved large crosses. In one of the inner corners of the church a stone box of a […]

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Mariamopolis

And I quote:   “The name of Mary left a deep imprint in the names associated with Chufut-Kale. As it turns out, in addition to the old necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, here, very close, there was a settlement called the CITY of MARIA – Mariampolis, Mariampolis is located on the same side of […]

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Cathar Crosses and Chufut-Kale

  THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE CATHARS – PART ONE   Ref the image above: “Stone gravestones from the crypts of the necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, near Chufut-Kale. On the tombstone on the left we see the Christian cross, and on the right gravestone is the Qatari cross. “   “Finds from the necropolis […]

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Just Down the Road from Bakhchisarai…

,,,is a place called Chufut-Kale   Me…months ago….Chufut-Kale     “Chufut-Kale was revered as the second most holy city after Jerusalem.”   Andronicus I Comnenus and his mother spent a long time here. She was buried here.   “In the 6th century, one of the most famous cave cities, Crimea, presumably built by the Alans and […]

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The Assumption Monastery of the Caves

ikiWPage: Bakhchisaray Cave Monastery       “In 1787, Empress Catherine II personally arrived in Crimea. In the Khan’s Palace, “to the left of the entrance, in front of the bridge, stands the Catherine’s Verst” with the inscription “Summer of 1787”, installed in honor of the arrival of the Russian Empress in Bakhchisarai >> Thus, at […]

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