Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Where Did Heather Brooke Go
Some pictures of Georgia in winter
La petite ville de Sighnaghi, and the background, the Greater Caucasus (Dagestan)
Herd in Kakheti, at the foot of the chain of Dagestan
Farm in Ninigori, Kakheti, at the foot of chain of Dagestan
view chain Kazbek in the Caucasus since the Great Church in Tbilisi Tvereli (Mtatsminda
Didveli (Bakuriani) second ski resort in the country in the chain of the Lesser Caucasus Trialeti
photos: © Nicolas Landru 
La petite ville de Sighnaghi, and the background, the Greater Caucasus (Dagestan)
Herd in Kakheti, at the foot of the chain of Dagestan
Farm in Ninigori, Kakheti, at the foot of chain of Dagestan
view chain Kazbek in the Caucasus since the Great Church in Tbilisi Tvereli (Mtatsminda
Didveli (Bakuriani) second ski resort in the country in the chain of the Lesser Caucasus Trialeti
photos: © Nicolas Landru
Confirmation Of Community Service
Market Kabale Kakheti: regional integration around the horse? Der Markt von
Article published on 12/01/2010 Caucaz.com
By Nicolas LANDRU in Kabale / Ninigori
© Nicolas Landru Horse Market Kabale
spreads like a line between the steep walls of stone and without holes of the Greater Caucasus (beyond which lies the Dagestan Russia) and Alazani Valley, a vast alluvial bed of the river traditionally uninhabited because of floods, and now reserved for agriculture.
The village of Kabale predominantly inhabited by Azeris and is one of the oldest in the region. All District Lagodekhi is composed of a mix ethnicity. Georgian villages, the vast majority, more precisely in western Georgia Imérétiens relocated here in 1930 to populate this region then virtually uninhabited; Azeri villages; Ossetian being fast depopulation, emigration to the North Ossetia being dramatic, and finally ethnic groups Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). There are even some villages Oudis, Christian people almost disappeared, forming a small minority in Azerbaijan, and is said descendant of the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
Pastoralism
A group of people roamed throughout the year from north to south of Kakheti, somehow giving unity to the region: Keys, shepherds from the mountains of the far north-Touchette is, where are the summer pastures for their herds. In autumn, they descend the valley to reach the Alazani their winter pastures, steppes Chiraq on the border of Azerbaijan. Many Azeris in the south of Kakheti are also pastors and move seasonally in the southern region, often crossing the border of their country "owner", Azerbaijan.
In sum, the veil of nomadism is still space in the region to come and mingle with the sedentary culture of wine and Georgians. In Soviet times, nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary, often assigned to monitor herds collectivized. Cultures "nomads" of origin was not long reappear in full force with the collapse of the USSR, and the paucity of infrastructure, the horse has taken a prominent place in local culture.
Used for transport, such as oxen and water buffalo, but also as a mount for surveillance of flocks of sheep raised for wool and meat, these little horses of Arab type reminder that there is no two centuries of Turkic nomads from the steppes of Central Asia (which would become one of the many components of the Azeri minority) were still settling into the area.
node of a subsistence economy
Important point
trade horses, oxen and sheep, located between two villages, the cattle market in Kabale is as a large flat area without specific infrastructure, spread around the alluvial bed of the river Kabala. Quick muddy when it rained, it looks like mostly a vast wasteland where every Sunday we can come and try to sell his cattle.
Vehicles (Ladas carts and horses mostly) are vaguely parked on the sides, and field, men exhibit and ride the animals, a horse to negotiate 300-2000 laris by "quality" of the beast , age, size, strength. Racing and trials of carts and horses are held between the stalls, providing the necessary entertainment with the long hours of waiting, sometimes spreading panic among the crowd.
Tackle Annex, saddles and stirrups, tanks or harness is handcrafted, wood, leather or sheepskin. If the market does not collect the horses almost exclusively of men, the equipment market, with food, clothing, and miscellaneous products under precarious halls located across the site, is the preserve of women and families. This market, as found around the Caucasus, is still the most important south of Kakheti.
A factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival of Alaverdoba, north of Kakheti, which takes place around the Orthodox Cathedral of Alaverdi and is traditionally open to all denominations, the market Kabale is a meeting point villages and ethnic groups in the region. Factor of regional balance, we come from afar to participate in this rural province, and agriculture and to a lesser extent, pastoralism, are an important part of the household economy.
The Kakheti region is one of the most multiethnic of Georgia, but it is also in more stable and less use of ethno-political tensions. If this phenomenon is related to many factors, the management style of leaders, the power structure, history, geo-strategic reasons, he also has to do with the undeniable fact that all groups in the region - none of which are isolated and who speak the Georgian language of communication - are united in a particular socio-economic system that revolves around the encounter between viticulture, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi," exclaims Bacho in a toast that brought his profession to go door to door throughout the region. "Everybody needs everyone, and all live in peace as good neighbors. .
Far from Tbilisi and the new Georgia, the market is a residue of Kabale age where time is not moving as fast. It is a relic that the USSR was not buried, far away, and Georgia will take time to disappear. The socio-economic developments facing the country relate to specific areas affecting almost exclusively the population of the capital. They have very little impact on the "ecosystem" of the province. Without a sustainable economic revolution that can fundamentally restructure a society still rooted in the rural and pastoral, the market in Kabale and countless parents will host many more Sundays of micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also portfolio Caucaz.com: Market Kabale 
Article published on 12/01/2010 Caucaz.com
By Nicolas LANDRU in Kabale / Ninigori
© Nicolas Landru Horse Market Kabale
The cattle market in Kabale Sunday Kakheti, bordering south-eastern Georgia and a few kilometers from the border with Azerbaijan, income seems like another era. It is the largest market of its kind in Georgia, in the heart of a region showing a superposition of peoples and cultures. Where pastoralism joined the sedentary, some perspectives on tropism emblematic of dozens of local economies in Transcaucasia.
region Kabale District Lagodekhi, is a transitional space. North and west, deep Kakheti wine and Georgian traditions. South, the steppes of Kakheti and shepherds, which opens on Azerbaijan and beyond, the Caspian and Central Asia. The area inhabitedspreads like a line between the steep walls of stone and without holes of the Greater Caucasus (beyond which lies the Dagestan Russia) and Alazani Valley, a vast alluvial bed of the river traditionally uninhabited because of floods, and now reserved for agriculture.
The village of Kabale predominantly inhabited by Azeris and is one of the oldest in the region. All District Lagodekhi is composed of a mix ethnicity. Georgian villages, the vast majority, more precisely in western Georgia Imérétiens relocated here in 1930 to populate this region then virtually uninhabited; Azeri villages; Ossetian being fast depopulation, emigration to the North Ossetia being dramatic, and finally ethnic groups Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). There are even some villages Oudis, Christian people almost disappeared, forming a small minority in Azerbaijan, and is said descendant of the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
Pastoralism
A group of people roamed throughout the year from north to south of Kakheti, somehow giving unity to the region: Keys, shepherds from the mountains of the far north-Touchette is, where are the summer pastures for their herds. In autumn, they descend the valley to reach the Alazani their winter pastures, steppes Chiraq on the border of Azerbaijan. Many Azeris in the south of Kakheti are also pastors and move seasonally in the southern region, often crossing the border of their country "owner", Azerbaijan.
In sum, the veil of nomadism is still space in the region to come and mingle with the sedentary culture of wine and Georgians. In Soviet times, nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary, often assigned to monitor herds collectivized. Cultures "nomads" of origin was not long reappear in full force with the collapse of the USSR, and the paucity of infrastructure, the horse has taken a prominent place in local culture.
Used for transport, such as oxen and water buffalo, but also as a mount for surveillance of flocks of sheep raised for wool and meat, these little horses of Arab type reminder that there is no two centuries of Turkic nomads from the steppes of Central Asia (which would become one of the many components of the Azeri minority) were still settling into the area.
node of a subsistence economy
Important point
trade horses, oxen and sheep, located between two villages, the cattle market in Kabale is as a large flat area without specific infrastructure, spread around the alluvial bed of the river Kabala. Quick muddy when it rained, it looks like mostly a vast wasteland where every Sunday we can come and try to sell his cattle.
Vehicles (Ladas carts and horses mostly) are vaguely parked on the sides, and field, men exhibit and ride the animals, a horse to negotiate 300-2000 laris by "quality" of the beast , age, size, strength. Racing and trials of carts and horses are held between the stalls, providing the necessary entertainment with the long hours of waiting, sometimes spreading panic among the crowd.
Tackle Annex, saddles and stirrups, tanks or harness is handcrafted, wood, leather or sheepskin. If the market does not collect the horses almost exclusively of men, the equipment market, with food, clothing, and miscellaneous products under precarious halls located across the site, is the preserve of women and families. This market, as found around the Caucasus, is still the most important south of Kakheti.
A factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival of Alaverdoba, north of Kakheti, which takes place around the Orthodox Cathedral of Alaverdi and is traditionally open to all denominations, the market Kabale is a meeting point villages and ethnic groups in the region. Factor of regional balance, we come from afar to participate in this rural province, and agriculture and to a lesser extent, pastoralism, are an important part of the household economy.
The Kakheti region is one of the most multiethnic of Georgia, but it is also in more stable and less use of ethno-political tensions. If this phenomenon is related to many factors, the management style of leaders, the power structure, history, geo-strategic reasons, he also has to do with the undeniable fact that all groups in the region - none of which are isolated and who speak the Georgian language of communication - are united in a particular socio-economic system that revolves around the encounter between viticulture, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi," exclaims Bacho in a toast that brought his profession to go door to door throughout the region. "Everybody needs everyone, and all live in peace as good neighbors. .
Far from Tbilisi and the new Georgia, the market is a residue of Kabale age where time is not moving as fast. It is a relic that the USSR was not buried, far away, and Georgia will take time to disappear. The socio-economic developments facing the country relate to specific areas affecting almost exclusively the population of the capital. They have very little impact on the "ecosystem" of the province. Without a sustainable economic revolution that can fundamentally restructure a society still rooted in the rural and pastoral, the market in Kabale and countless parents will host many more Sundays of micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also portfolio Caucaz.com: Market Kabale
Eml Manualoutdoor Light
in Kabale Kachetien: Regionale Integration durch das Pferd?
Veröffentlicht am 26.01.2010 in Caucaz.com
Nicolas Von LANDRU in Kabale / Ninigori
Übersetzt Astrid von HAGER
Veröffentlicht am 26.01.2010 in Caucaz.com
Nicolas Von LANDRU in Kabale / Ninigori
Übersetzt Astrid von HAGER
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© Nicolas Landru, The Horse Market Kabali
The cattle market Kabali in Kakheti, on the southeastern border of Georgia and a few kilometers from the border line with Azerbaijan away, seems like the return of a different era. This market is the largest of its kind in Georgia, in the heart of a region in which peoples and cultures overlap. This is where pastoral farming and settled life and allow insights into the exemplary tropism of dozens of local economies to the Transcaucasus.
The region of Kabali, the district Lagodekhi is a transition region. In the north and west, deep Kakheti with his wine and his Georgian traditions. In the south, the steppes of Kakheti and shepherds, which opens out to Azerbaijan, and beyond the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.
The whole area runs like a line between the complete stone wall of some of the Great Caucasus (on the other hand, Dagestan extends in Russia) and the Alazani Valley round, that alluvial river Alazani that the high risk of flooding traditionally thin settled and is now used mainly for agriculture.
Kabali The village is inhabited mostly by Azeris and is one of the oldest towns in the region. The district consists Lagodekhi composed of a very delicate ethnic structure. First, the Georgian villages, the majority make, more precisely, Imereti in western Georgia that were settled in the 1930s here to populate this then almost uninhabited area, adjacent Azeri villages, and Ossetian villages, but due to the rapid emigration North Ossetia are emptying, and finally, the ethnic groups of Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). Even some of the villages Udis found here, a Christian ethnic group that is almost gone, and forms only a small minority in Azerbaijan. Of them are said to be descended from the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
grazing
There is a population that throughout the year round runs from north to south Kakheti as nomads and thus the region as it were held together: the ink, a pastoral people from the mountains of Tusheti in the north-east of the country, where are the summer grazing their cattle. In the fall they drive their cattle down the entire Alazani Valley to reach their winter pastures, the plains of Shiraki at the Azeri border. Also, many Azeris from the South Kakheti are shepherds and drag the season in the southern region, where they often cross the border to their "mother country" Azerbaijan. Ultimately
turns the trace of nomadism remains in the region and merges with the traditions of the sedentary and the wine of the Georgians. During the Soviet era, the nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary and often results in divided, to look after the cattle of the collective farms. The original "nomadic" cultures experienced but soon after the collapse of the USSR and a renaissance due to lack of infrastructure took the horse back to its once important place as means of transport in the local culture.
As cattle or water buffalo are used horses for transportation, but primarily as a mount for guarding the flocks of sheep that are kept for their wool and meat. These small Arabian horse remember that even 200 years ago, nomadic Turkic peoples from the steppes of Central Asia (which, together with other ethnic groups to a Bestanteil the Azeri minority) had come to this region in order to settle there.
junction of a subsistence economy
The cattle market Kabali, one of the most important centers for trade in horses, cattle or sheep, is located between two villages and appears as a vast, flat area with no more definable infrastructure along the alluvial plain of the river spreads Kabali. Quick muddy when it rains, it resembles a vast primarily, blurry Place where you can try every Sunday to sell his cattle.
The vehicles (mostly Ladas and wagon) are more or less on the sides parked in the square itself present men their cattle to negotiate the price of a horse 300-2000 Lari, according to "quality" of the animal, its age , its size and strength. Run and test drives with their carts, horses take place between the costs incurred to provide, in view of long waiting times for pastime, but this can lead sometimes to panic in the crowd.
All accessories such as saddle and stirrups, cart or harness is hand made of wood, Leather or sheepskin. While the horse market accumulates almost exclusively men, then the market for household goods, food, clothing and other products, which is housed in makeshift buildings on the other hand, the women and families Reserved. This market, as it can be found in this or in similar form throughout the Caucasus, however the most important in the south of Kakheti.
a factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival Alaverdoba, located in the northern Kakheti, the Orthodox cathedral is traditionally organized by Alaverdi around and is open to all denominations, including the market of a meeting place Kabali for the villages and ethnic groups of this region. In this rural area where farming and to a lesser extent, grazing continue to be important elements of the private economy, it is an important issue of regional balance, to which you are coming from far away to be part of it can.
Kakheti is one of the regions in Georgia that are most influenced multi-ethnic, yet it is also considered one of the most stable regions of the country with the lowest ethno-political tensions. Although this phenomenon is linked to a variety of factors, such as the organization of local leadership, the power structures, history, geo-strategic Considerations, yet it is undoubtedly evident that all groups of this region, of which live not in isolation and live all use Georgian as a common language, united in a particular socio-economic system, which is exactly this combination of wine, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary based.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi" conjures Bacho, who draws because of his work from house to house through the entire region in a toast. "Everyone needs everyone and all live together in peace as good neighbors."
Far from Tbilisi, Georgia is the new market of Kabali a remnant of those days where time is not as fast passed. He is a relic that has not buried the Soviet Union and - on the contrary - Georgia will not soon buried. The recent socio-economic transformations in Georgia affect only the few areas that affect the population of the capital. But they have little effect on the "ecosystem" of the province. In the absence of a sustainable economic revolution, which would be capable of a deep still in the countryside and in the pastoral society rooted structure from scratch, as the markets will revive some of Kabali Sundays micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also photo gallery of Caucaz.com: The Kabali-cattle market
The whole area runs like a line between the complete stone wall of some of the Great Caucasus (on the other hand, Dagestan extends in Russia) and the Alazani Valley round, that alluvial river Alazani that the high risk of flooding traditionally thin settled and is now used mainly for agriculture.
Kabali The village is inhabited mostly by Azeris and is one of the oldest towns in the region. The district consists Lagodekhi composed of a very delicate ethnic structure. First, the Georgian villages, the majority make, more precisely, Imereti in western Georgia that were settled in the 1930s here to populate this then almost uninhabited area, adjacent Azeri villages, and Ossetian villages, but due to the rapid emigration North Ossetia are emptying, and finally, the ethnic groups of Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). Even some of the villages Udis found here, a Christian ethnic group that is almost gone, and forms only a small minority in Azerbaijan. Of them are said to be descended from the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
grazing
There is a population that throughout the year round runs from north to south Kakheti as nomads and thus the region as it were held together: the ink, a pastoral people from the mountains of Tusheti in the north-east of the country, where are the summer grazing their cattle. In the fall they drive their cattle down the entire Alazani Valley to reach their winter pastures, the plains of Shiraki at the Azeri border. Also, many Azeris from the South Kakheti are shepherds and drag the season in the southern region, where they often cross the border to their "mother country" Azerbaijan. Ultimately
turns the trace of nomadism remains in the region and merges with the traditions of the sedentary and the wine of the Georgians. During the Soviet era, the nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary and often results in divided, to look after the cattle of the collective farms. The original "nomadic" cultures experienced but soon after the collapse of the USSR and a renaissance due to lack of infrastructure took the horse back to its once important place as means of transport in the local culture.
As cattle or water buffalo are used horses for transportation, but primarily as a mount for guarding the flocks of sheep that are kept for their wool and meat. These small Arabian horse remember that even 200 years ago, nomadic Turkic peoples from the steppes of Central Asia (which, together with other ethnic groups to a Bestanteil the Azeri minority) had come to this region in order to settle there.
junction of a subsistence economy
The cattle market Kabali, one of the most important centers for trade in horses, cattle or sheep, is located between two villages and appears as a vast, flat area with no more definable infrastructure along the alluvial plain of the river spreads Kabali. Quick muddy when it rains, it resembles a vast primarily, blurry Place where you can try every Sunday to sell his cattle.
The vehicles (mostly Ladas and wagon) are more or less on the sides parked in the square itself present men their cattle to negotiate the price of a horse 300-2000 Lari, according to "quality" of the animal, its age , its size and strength. Run and test drives with their carts, horses take place between the costs incurred to provide, in view of long waiting times for pastime, but this can lead sometimes to panic in the crowd.
All accessories such as saddle and stirrups, cart or harness is hand made of wood, Leather or sheepskin. While the horse market accumulates almost exclusively men, then the market for household goods, food, clothing and other products, which is housed in makeshift buildings on the other hand, the women and families Reserved. This market, as it can be found in this or in similar form throughout the Caucasus, however the most important in the south of Kakheti.
a factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival Alaverdoba, located in the northern Kakheti, the Orthodox cathedral is traditionally organized by Alaverdi around and is open to all denominations, including the market of a meeting place Kabali for the villages and ethnic groups of this region. In this rural area where farming and to a lesser extent, grazing continue to be important elements of the private economy, it is an important issue of regional balance, to which you are coming from far away to be part of it can.
Kakheti is one of the regions in Georgia that are most influenced multi-ethnic, yet it is also considered one of the most stable regions of the country with the lowest ethno-political tensions. Although this phenomenon is linked to a variety of factors, such as the organization of local leadership, the power structures, history, geo-strategic Considerations, yet it is undoubtedly evident that all groups of this region, of which live not in isolation and live all use Georgian as a common language, united in a particular socio-economic system, which is exactly this combination of wine, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary based.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi" conjures Bacho, who draws because of his work from house to house through the entire region in a toast. "Everyone needs everyone and all live together in peace as good neighbors."
Far from Tbilisi, Georgia is the new market of Kabali a remnant of those days where time is not as fast passed. He is a relic that has not buried the Soviet Union and - on the contrary - Georgia will not soon buried. The recent socio-economic transformations in Georgia affect only the few areas that affect the population of the capital. But they have little effect on the "ecosystem" of the province. In the absence of a sustainable economic revolution, which would be capable of a deep still in the countryside and in the pastoral society rooted structure from scratch, as the markets will revive some of Kabali Sundays micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also photo gallery of Caucaz.com: The Kabali-cattle market
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Ultrasound Shows Enlarged Stomach
Market Kabale Kakheti, as an air of Central Asia Georgia
All photos: Nicolas Landru 
All photos: Nicolas Landru
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Care Plan For Cellulitis
Christmas and New Year's Day in Tbilisi
"Guilotsavt Akhal tsel ..."
For Christmas 2009-2010, mayor of Tbilisi, this time invested in a grand style decoration "opera" lights with chandeliers and white diamond. The main avenue, Rustaveli, was covered with a carpet of small lanterns twinkling aspiring to elegance and style great century.
While some are proud, others criticize these decorations being designed as "uptown" while the vast majority of the city is still dark.
Still others speculate on their cost (million dollars?) And the fact that we could have put that money elsewhere, such as in the old city of Tbilisi literally collapsing. Finally, some say before the municipal elections next spring, the National Movement to power wants to eyeful ...
Photos and text: Nicolas Landru 
"Guilotsavt Akhal tsel ..."
For Christmas 2009-2010, mayor of Tbilisi, this time invested in a grand style decoration "opera" lights with chandeliers and white diamond. The main avenue, Rustaveli, was covered with a carpet of small lanterns twinkling aspiring to elegance and style great century. 
While some are proud, others criticize these decorations being designed as "uptown" while the vast majority of the city is still dark. Still others speculate on their cost (million dollars?) And the fact that we could have put that money elsewhere, such as in the old city of Tbilisi literally collapsing. Finally, some say before the municipal elections next spring, the National Movement to power wants to eyeful ...
Photos and text: Nicolas Landru
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