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The Turquoise Mountain Foundation is a non-governmental organization legally established in Scotland. It takes its name from Turquoise Mountain and initially focused on the enhancement of the Afghanistan craft industry. [1] The organization subsequently expanded its work to Jordan, [2] Saudi Arabia, [3] and Myanmar (Burma). [4]
Mount Taylor is Tsoodził, the blue bead mountain, sometimes translated as Turquoise Mountain, one of the four sacred mountains marking the cardinal directions and the boundaries of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. Mount Taylor marks the southern boundary, and is associated with the direction south and the color blue; it is ...
Firozkoh (Persian: فیروزکوه, Fīrōzkōh), or Turquoise Mountain, was the summer capital of the Ghurid dynasty, in the Ghor Province of central Afghanistan. It was reputedly one of the greatest cities of its age, but was destroyed in 1223 after a siege by Tolui, son of Genghis Khan. The location of the city was lost to history.
Turquoise is an opaque, ... It is restricted to a mine-riddled region in Nishapur, the 2,012 m (6,601 ft) mountain peak of Ali-mersai near Mashhad, ...
Simmons, Marc, Turquoise and Six Guns The Story of Cerrillos, New Mexico, The Sunstone Press Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1974 Lawson, Jacqueline E., Cerrillos Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Story of a Won't –Be Ghost Town, The Sunstone Press Santa Fe New Mexico, 1989 Archived 2017-10-03 at the Wayback Machine. Los Cerrillos, New Mexico
Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. [3] The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 km west of Mount Everest. The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border, between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Koshi Province.
To the west is the giant stratovolcano Mount Taylor (Navajo: Tsoodził, The Turquoise Mountain), and to the east are the cities of Rio Rancho, Albuquerque, the village of Corrales, and the Sandia Mountains.
Approximately 200,000 pieces of turquoise have been excavated from the ruins at Chaco Canyon, [76] and workshops for local manufacture of turquoise beads have been found. The turquoise was used locally for grave goods, burials and ceremonial offerings. [77] More than 15,000 turquoise beads and pendants accompanied two burials at Pueblo Bonito. [75]