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Last updated: 7 August 2026

Every landscape and place photograph on this site is a real photograph of a real place — no AI-generated or stock-substitute imagery. Photographs of Kurdistan and Mount Ararat sourced from Wikimedia Commons are credited below with their licenses. Unless a photo shows the specific prize parcel, imagery is illustrative of the region.

Wikimedia Commons photographs

Subject	Photographer	License
Mountains of Kurdistan (Mergasor)	Khoshhat	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains of Kurdistan in spring (Mount Musak)	Khoshhat	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains of Kurdistan Region in spring	Khoshhat	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains of Kurdistan (Mergasor & Hakkâri)	Khoshhat	CC BY-SA 4.0
Safeen Mountain, Shaqlawa district	Khoshhat	CC BY 4.0
The gorge at Rawanduz	Levi Clancy	CC0 (public domain)
Akre old town	Hamaredha	CC BY-SA 4.0
Erbil Citadel from the air (Hewlêr)	jan kurdistani	CC BY-SA 2.0
Kurdish pomegranates (hanar)	Saad sazani	CC BY-SA 4.0
Girl near Erbil Citadel (crop)	Jehan Sherko (جيهان شيركو)	CC BY-SA 4.0
Lake Dukan, Sulaymaniyah	Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mount Ararat and the Ararat plain	Elen Ayvazyan	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline	Serouj Ourishian	CC BY-SA 3.0
Ottoman gold coin of Sultan Mahmud II, 1818 (illustrative of the gold lira)	Jerry "Woody" (Flickr)	CC BY-SA 2.0
Flagship smartphone (illustrative)	PantheraLeo1359531	CC BY 4.0
Newroz torch procession, Akre	Levi Clancy	CC0 (public domain)
Govend dance line at Newroz, Amed (Diyarbakır)	Kushared (Mohammed Serdar)	CC BY-SA 4.0
19th-century Jaf Kurdish weaving (Kareem Rug Collection)	Unknown Kurdish weaver; gallery photo	Public domain
Kurdish dolma near Akre	Levi Clancy	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Dengbêj House (Mala Dengbêjan), Amed (Diyarbakır)	MikaelF	CC BY-SA 3.0

Some images are resized or cropped from the originals. CC BY-SA imagery remains available under its original license at the linked source pages.

Other photography

Remaining photographs (Tawela and the Hawraman valley, Palangan, the Diyarbakır walls, Qamishli, the Erbil Citadel aerial, and the prize-plot images) are from the project's own archive or used with permission of the photographer.