{"id":51,"date":"2004-05-13T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:36:48","slug":"new-clues-prove-russias-ancient-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/archives\/51","title":{"rendered":"New clues prove Russia&#8217;s ancient heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/05\/logo-2025-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"logo-2025\" title=\"logo-2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/05\/logo-2025-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/05\/logo-2025-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/05\/logo-2025.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, a republic in Russia, should mark its 5,000th rather than the approaching 430th anniversary of its foundation, says Vladimir Putenikhin, a writer and traveler from Ufa.<\/p>\n<p>Regions.ru reports that Vladimir Putenikhin\u2019s background is in biology, but at heart he is a researcher. Four years ago he made an exciting discovery that Ufa has a 5,000-year history, definitely longer as compared to the traditionally believed 430 years. Besides, the researcher has identified the etymology of the city\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researcher, the capital of Bashkortostan is even older than Sumer civilization and Mesopotamia. The settlement site Turatau that archaeologists discovered in Ufa appears to back up the hypothesis. Now the place is a residential area named Green Grove. Mr. Putenikhin is convinced that the word Turatau stems from \u201cMount Ura\u201d. The Slavic \u201cP\u201d in the name of the Ufa fortress in the ancient records was mistakenly read as the Russian \u201cT\u201d (&#8220;F&#8221;) resulting  in \u201cUfa\u201d. The city\u2019s ancient name means \u201cemerged from the sun\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/19\/94\/377\/12769_sumer.html\">http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/19\/94\/377\/12769_sumer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, a republic in Russia, should mark its 5,000th rather than the approaching 430th anniversary of its foundation, says Vladimir Putenikhin, a writer and traveler from Ufa.<br \/>\nRegions.ru reports that Vladimir Putenikhin\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}