Zigana Mountains

	Zigana Mountains Zigana may refer to : * Zigana Pass ( tr, Zigana Geçidi, link=no), a mountain pass in the Pontic Mountains og northeastern Anatolia, Turkey Zigana Tunnel (1988), through the pass Zigana Tunnel (2023), through the pass ** 2009 Zigana avalanche * Curiate Italian for Zygana, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see at Cobuleti in Lazica, now in Georgia * Zigana (pistol), an automatic pistol produced by Turkish firearm manufacturing company TİSAŞ See also * ''Zygaena'', a genus of moths typical for the family Zygaenidae * ''Pronous ''Pronous'' is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881. Species it contains sixteen species: '' Pronous affinis'' Simon, 1901 – Malaysia '' Pronous beatus'' (O. Pickard-Camb ... '', a genus of spiders with the synonym "Zigana" {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zigana Pass The Zigana Pass ( tr, Zigana Geçidi) is a mountain pass situated on the Pontic Mountains in Gümüşhane Province close to its border with Trabzon Province in northeastern Turkey. The pass, at above sea level, is on the route at a distance of from Gümüşhane and from Trabzon at the Black Sea coast. The pass is snow-covered five months a year. The Zigana Tunnel under the pass, at an elevation of above sea level, is long, wide and has a maximum height of . It is one of longest tunnels in the country. The namesake village of Zigana, located southwest of the tunnel, is a popular ski-resort. Nearby Lake Limni is reachable on foot by a trail or by car on a road (partly unpaved) via Kalkanlı village. On 25 January 2009, an avalanche killed 11 hikers on Mount Zigana. Zingana pass is the pass through which the Myriads of Xenofon passed through on their way out of Persia ( Ξενοφων «καθοδος των μυριων «) and shouted Thalatta Thalatta ( sea sea) whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zigana Tunnel (1988) The Zigana Tunnel ( tr, Zigana Tüneli) is a road tunnel constructed on the Maçka, Trabzon– Torul, Gümüşhane state highway southwest of the provincial border Trabzon– Gümüşhane, northeastern Turkey. It was opened to traffic in 1988. Situated at Zigana Pass The Zigana Pass ( tr, Zigana Geçidi) is a mountain pass situated on the Pontic Mountains in Gümüşhane Province close to its border with Trabzon Province in northeastern Turkey. The pass, at above sea level, is on the route at a distance of ... on the Pontic Mountains, the -long tunnel was excavated in two years. The breakthrough took place on 2 September 1977. It carries one lane of traffic in each direction in one tube, which has clearance and width. The tunnel's elevation is at in the north-south direction. New Zigana Tunnel In September 2013, it was announced that a new tunnel is projected at Zigana Pass. The tunnel was opened in 2023. It is a -long twin-tube tunnel carrying two lanes of traffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zigana Tunnel (2023) Zigana Tunnel ( tr, Zigana Tüneli) is a road tunnel in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Located on the provincial border of Gümüşhane and Trabzon, the tunnel carries routes between Torul, Gümüşhane in the south and Maçka, Trabzon in the north. Situated near Mount Zigana in the Pontic Mountains, the new twin tube tunnel is country's longest tunnel with a length of . It is built to bypass the Zigana Pass and the current Zigana Tunnel The Zigana Tunnel ( tr, Zigana Tüneli) is a road tunnel constructed on the Maçka, Trabzon– Torul, Gümüşhane state highway southwest of the provincial border Trabzon–Gümüşhane, northeastern Turkey. It was opened to traffic in 1988. .... It shorten the route by about and reduce the travel time by twenty minutes. References Road tunnels in Turkey Transport in Gümüşhane Province Transport in Trabzon Province Tunnels completed in 2023 {{Turkey-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2009 Zigana Avalanche The 2009 Zigana avalanche was an avalanche that occurred on 25 January at around 11:15 local time (09:15 UTC) on Mount Zigana, Gümüşhane Province in north-eastern Turkey. It struck a group of 17 hikers at a height of near the site of a small ski resort. The snow mass dragged the hikers about into a valley. Ten people were killed, one person was rescued with injuries and another one died in hospital while five others survived without injuries. Teams from civilian defense and other public administrations rushed to the scene for the rescue of the victims from a sports club in Trabzon after local gendarmerie was notified of the incident. Also a team of AKUT, a voluntary disaster search and rescue organization, travelled from Trabzon to the location, to assess the situation and to offer any help and assistance necessary. Nasuh Mahruki, the first Turkish Mount Everest summiter and the head of AKUT, said that "the accident was a walking group accident, not a mountain climbing ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zygana Zygana once was a bishopric in Lazica, Georgia and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Ecclesiastical history Its location was modern Cobuleti. It was presumably a suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ... of the Archdiocese of Phasis (Fasi, modern Poti). No residential incumbents available, nor a date of suppression. In 1933 it was nominally restored as Latin Catholic Titular bishopric of Zygana (Latin) / Zigana (Curiate Italian) / Zyganen(sis) (Latin adjective). It is of the Episcopal (lowest) rank, but has had no incumbent yet. See also * Zigana, (notably Turkish) namesakes Sources and external links GCatholic Catholic titular sees in Europe {{RC-diocese-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zigana (pistol) Zigana is a semi-automatic pistol produced by Turkish firearm manufacturing company TİSAŞ. The pistol was started to be produced in 2001 and is one of the first pistols in Turkey with an original design. Zigana pistols have a locked-slide short recoil operating mechanism with a modified Semi-automatic pistol#Actions: blowback versus locked breech, Browning-type locking system. In addition, these pistols also have an automatic firing pin block. Zigana PX-9 model is produced in Malaysia in partnership with Turkey. In Pakistan, Zigana models are produced and sold illegally by local workshops. Variants Zigana is imported by American Tactical Imports in the United States and marketed under the ''FS9'' and ''FS40'' names. In addition, the Zigana K and Zigana F models are licensed under the name of ''Zəfər'', ''Zəfər-K'' and ''Inam'' by the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ministry of Defense Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Users (non civil) * : Zəfər, Zəfər-K, Zə ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Zygaena ''Zygaena'' is a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae. These brightly coloured, day-flying moths are native to the West Palearctic. Description Adalbert Seitz described them thus: "Small, stout, black insects, sometimes with metallic gloss. Antenna very strongly developed; the club being considerably incrassate distally. Tongue long and strong. Legs rather short. Forewing elongate oval,black or red, rarely spotted with white or yellow. Hindwing small, usually red, seldom black. —Larva strongly humpbacked, very soft, downy-haired. Pupa in a paper-like silky cocoon, the sheaths of legs and wings being loosely soldered together. The moths are mostly local, their stations being often restricted to a mountain, a meadow, etc. They appear mostly in large numbers at their special localities, swarming about flowers, which they suck, fore instance Scabious, Thistles, Eryngium, etc., their flight being slow and straight on. The body of these insects contains, as in the other Zygaenids ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]