Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and “Köç Yolu” Transhumance Route
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How it came to be
Khinalug sits at 2,180 metres in the Greater Caucasus of northern Azerbaijan, the highest and most isolated village in the country. Its semi-nomadic people spend summers on high pastures around the village and winters on lowland pastures in central Azerbaijan.
The 200-kilometre route between them is the Köç Yolu, the migration route. Old roads, camps, irrigation channels, springs and wells, mausoleums, mosques, cemeteries and bridges grew up along it over time, and herding is still the heart of village life.
In 2007 the village became a state historical, architectural and ethnographic reserve, and in 2011 the roofs of nearly a hundred houses were restored. The village and the route were inscribed together as a cultural landscape in 2023.
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