we're done, so most shopkeepers here are speaking. turkish in our little spanish is a multiple moments did. i'm iranian when i'm proud to still be able to speak my native language turkish marshall. and that below is how we've been able to hold on to our language and culture on amazon. but they've totally new to truth. globally crucial would be the year that should covers literature shinta breeds. we all help each other with your future home, which you won't see any beggars here through the chat with other public her booked among the should i, ron is a big country with many different languages and nationalities that all get along very well to big on the liberal the truth from federal ah ah. outside seabreeze,

the ancient so crowd that linked peoples and cultures continues to cross the mountains to the southwest, the mountains also offered an unusual refuge to people fleeing the mongol me some 700 years ago. they took to the cave to hide over the generations. they cut off the entire village of condo van into the volcanic rock at the foot of the sa hunt volcano. the homes are now known as cut on the word for bee hive in the local turkish dialect. over the years, the villages extended their dwellings today most are between 2 and full stories and include living space, storage rooms, and shelter for animals. while some found refuge in the lava caves, others found peace and even more forbidding and remote mountain and scapes.

in the far north west of the country, the monastery of saint to deus was established on a barren plateau at an elevation of almost 2000 meters. the monastery complex dates mainly from the 13th century, but according to armenian tradition. same today. his 1st built a church here and found at the monastery around the years. 66 st. to deus, also known as judas to days. oh jude. the apostle is said to be buried here. ah, and armenians who fled the genocide in turkey for iran also sought refuge here. ah,

to day the orthodox monastery has a new neighbor, a muslim, sunny village, another symbol of the peaceful coexistence of religious communities in iran. ah, a young muslim man from the village. tense to the monastery. ah, monday it was so long. i work for the iranian cultural heritage organization. forum of a job career. how them i'm a technician. i tend to the renovation us and maintaining the building was a goes by basically do i make all the necessary repairs to the masonry and the electric scholar, my mother, i also tend to the cleaning about the vonage army. kelly saw a church is the heart of our village who saw him out of the church, the village and the villagers are bound to each other like the length of

a chain. i'm get ahold of that with once a year the tet takes out of the day, the knife and the finish. the monastery is a place of pilgrimage for orthodox armenian christians. adomonion by haunted assault was a shower that armenians gather here from around the world. michelle to celebrate the anniversary of saint today of his martyrdom it. well, it's a 3 day ceremony with baptisms blessings, weddings shot and processions around the church up hold one account. they also sacrifice a land. john. michelle been with us some that could associate. i remember when i was little and we children were afraid to enter the church and off at the 1st time i was really inside the church was when i was 8. i did county so dusta. oh char, the church in the village or my home. i feel responsible to both of them because i

grew up with them maybe. ah, any math with ambition. the kid is subtle. jojo kelly, so you, i'm 23 and i've always lived here, man, this by the indoor a so. so mass will yet there was though you dora and then be so says so send out, i mean john mo, most of my childhood friends, the people i went to school with have left to loose. so does they had other dreams way to have, how much and or more little years without them who should have for them one or the meat we eat, comes from our herds, the animals we raise ourselves, she hits excellent dogs. the same goes for the milk. no matter though by women of this village work alongside their husband said to call back one of at the noon, even the bread is made with flour from our wheat fields yard on the far then we cannot. we chose this light dental drink and we want to live it to the

o as in claim to be shot. ah, well the albert is marcia stretches across the north of iran. does that cross mountains form a natural border to iraq on the west? these craggy peaks and remote valleys, a home to the iranian province of kurdistan. the kurtz, or iran, 2nd largest minority after the us about johnny turks. the region has its own distinct cultural and political identity, which it owes in part to its isolated geography. villages are scattered in the mountains with unspoiled nature. as far as the i can see, the province is known for its forests,

one of the rounds largest 2nd only to the forest at the caspian sea. the fertile soil helps sustain a bounty of oak trees, fruit, trees, and precious woods. a singular environment that helps give birth to an old tradition. ah, ah, i am, you should think me children, both. i used to think that when a tree is felled, it dies. believe rob, but now i know michelle to what is in the you the what a vish. but she did, when a tree becomes the musical instrument, it lives on the do oh, oh,

i, in the past, these instruments made of high quality local woods, were played by traveling bars and shannon's music and song preserved the old traditions. and music itself is passed down from one generation to the next. but they all pioneers, like rockmart, a ye, me, the 1st in his family to become an artist and craftsman, here in the regional capital of son and dutch. it as much builds and repairs musical instruments using the finest natural materials in the kurdish tradition.

i love him. i thought i was already working with wood, but it was mainly my interest in music that led me to stop building taz and other musical instruments made of wood. i decided to dedicate myself to making instruments, stringed instruments because of my love for music. this was a i need that us is originally i wanted to be a musician myself, a whole bunch. but i couldn't find a good instrument here. that's when i started becoming interested in making instrumentals. and finally i became a lute, make myself up. ah, jim, on jazz this command is made with inlaid would love to show the i could imagine there are a 140 strips of wood, different woods. she done

a lot of crowded. yeah. to me about it. but mom is arranging the strips on this round surface so they fit together perfectly. is very challenging about jen situation of cardboard. and all this would do i used our wall much were you and orange tree has fish not and has fish the best. the neck is decorated with ebony by its magnificent instrument message then ah, with that bloody ship, who quoted us on that music is something we could have in our blood. a hot in my home i to, to my, to my mom has, there's such a variety of melodies,

in kurdistan. every region has its own musical style from young pylon fighting with blue further south. a cliff, hundreds of me says high, overlooks the neighboring plain. mm. these are touring is located on the royal road that once lengthy iranian plateau to mesopotamia, king doris, the 1st built the commercial route in the 5th century,

b. e. more than 2500 kilometers long. it was intended to facilitate communication across his bossed empire. with this bass relief more than 15 meters high and 25 meters wide, depicts doris holding a bow with his foot on the chest of a man lying on his back in front of him. roughly 1200 lines long. the inscription tells the story of how doris defeated the 9 lying kings who had tried to divide the persian empire. the monumental relief carved on the cliff about 60

meters above the plain was meant to send a message to his subjects. i'm to future generations embracing past and present the people of iran live in harmony with their changing landscapes. ah ah, how to eat without feeling guilty about the impact on the planet? according to german food pioneers, if possible,

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