Index World Press Photo
July 2010 | Edition Fourteen     




Kurdish woman walk around the ruins of the citadel. The town was founded in Roman times as a border post with Persia. It started out as Cepha or Kiphas, and was renamed Hisn Kayf by the Arabs who conquered it in 640. Later Artokids and Ajjadubids ruled until the Mongols plundered it so thoroughly in 1260 that it never regained its glory.

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