Baqla Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

ancient settlement Baqla(4th-14th centuries) consists of a citadel built by Byzantines on the northern border of their possesions in Taurica at the end of the 6th century and the adjacent to it suburb. In the 10th-14th centuries, Baqla was one of the small towns of the Southwest Crimea. At the end of the 13th-middle of the 14th century, the life in the settlement decayed. Today, one can see here the remains of estates, of a defense wall. and more than 90 caves that were used for religios,economic, and burial purposes.

"Baqla" translates from the language of Crimean Tatars as "beans".

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