Hike to the Ancient Monastery of Rabban Biya in Shaqlawa, Kurdistan ☀️
What started as a simple walk turned into a rewarding hike! I ventured to the ancient Temple of Christ in Shaqlawa, Iraqi Kurdistan. This historic church, part of a region known for its rich Assyrian-Chaldean heritage, dates back centuries and offers stunning views from its elevated position.
Join me on this journey to explore the beautiful landscapes and deep history of Shaqlawa, a town once home to diverse communities, including Assyrians and Jews. Let’s uncover the fascinating past and breathtaking scenery together!
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First and welcome to kurdistan
my friend if you are still in erbil shoot me a message, I can tell you where to go to and maybe show you some places if I am free.
Mustapha is so cute 🥰
so glad to know more about Kurdistan, thanks for this interesting content Alex!
Let’s gooo! I was sleeping on your videos 😔 let’s make it up now
20:00 i'm near sulemaniyah and %99 of the kurds from all the 4 parts wants independence, because we have existed for atleast 8000 years and had 20+ empires but in the last 100 years we have lost and there is a saying you might've heard "the winner writes history" so iran and turkey have stoled our language, culture, history, music, dances, myths, history,
and in iraq during saddam we were banned from existing, yeah you heard it right 🐸, in iran we got a country during WW2 but after 1 year the soviet union betrayed us and our leader suerrendered and offerd to be hanged in order for the kurdish civilians to be safe,
in turkey the languege, dance, music is all banned, a teenager was k!lled in there for listening to kurdish music, for examlpe if you speak kurdish and someone kiddnaps you and hurts you and you call 911 the police will arrest you for speaking kurdish basically 🐸
in syria the teachers in school abused the kids who spoke kurdish and said don't speak the language of the animals until in 2012 we took an advantage of isis when syria was weak we made a military force and got a region there, till this day half of syria is under the rule of the kurds
totally we are about 40M-60M Kurds and we have been forced to be not kurds and all of our neighbor countries are our enemies so ofcourse we want independence
in 2017 after isis was gone in south kurdistan we made a referandum and %93 voted for independence so iraq attacked us, the other %7 who voted for No was because we knew we would be attacked
This was long sorry for taking your time so much but that's some unfortunate facts