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The empire the world forgot
Ruled by a dizzying array of kingdoms and empires over the centuries – from the Byzantines to the Ottomans – the city of Ani once housed many thousands of people, becoming a cultural hub and regional power under the medieval Bagratid Armenian dynasty. Today, it’s an eerie, abandoned city of ghosts that stands alone on a plateau in the remote highlands of northeast Turkey, 45km away from the Turkish border city of Kars. As you walk among the many ruins...
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Despite this being marked as a re-post, I can't seem to find it as an earlier snap. Has this been posted before?
It was posted 3 days ago http://snapzu.com/Cobbydaler/the-empire-the-world-forgot
Thanks. I suppose that’s the problem using Google queries to work around the Snapzu search function. An earlier snap a couple days old may be skipped for being stale. Vale AltaVista.