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In Azerbaijan there is an unusual mountain that is always on
Yanardag — the best of mountain (rather hill) in the Absheron Peninsula, 25 km North of Baku. If you translate the word "Yanardag" means "burning mountain". And continues to burn, burning in reality — here and there on the rocks and earth rise bright flames.
The mountain burns and in the rain, and snow, and with a great wind because of the depth of the released natural combustible gas. He then emerges out of thin porous layers of Sandstone.
According to the Azerbaijani culture — oil and gas are so shallow that in many places they spill out in the form of flame. Until about the mid-nineteenth century on the Apsheron there were places where a lit wick from the earth like a torch was burning"... And that is documented — these natural "torches of nowhere" described by many travelers, including Marco Polo and Alexander Dumai.
Three flame appear on the arms of Baku. Territory of Absheron Peninsula was once the center of Zoroastrianism, and is still a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from India and Iran — because "eternal flame".
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The mountain burns and in the rain, and snow, and with a great wind because of the depth of the released natural combustible gas. He then emerges out of thin porous layers of Sandstone.
According to the Azerbaijani culture — oil and gas are so shallow that in many places they spill out in the form of flame. Until about the mid-nineteenth century on the Apsheron there were places where a lit wick from the earth like a torch was burning"... And that is documented — these natural "torches of nowhere" described by many travelers, including Marco Polo and Alexander Dumai.
Three flame appear on the arms of Baku. Territory of Absheron Peninsula was once the center of Zoroastrianism, and is still a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from India and Iran — because "eternal flame".
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