http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 21:24:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is located between two wall supports at the southern part of Ayasophia. It is an interesting product of Turkish construction and decorative arts. It was built by Sultan Mahmud I in 1739. The library consists of a reading room, the room where the books were kept under protection (hazine-i ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-hagia-sophia-museum-mahmut-i-library.html Hagia Sophia is considered a unique monument in world architecture, and it's magnificence and functionality has been a good example in construction of countless Ottoman mosques. Hagia Sophia with its exceptional history constitutes a synthesis between east and west. This monument is one of the wonders of the world that ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-hagia-sophia-museum.html It is in Fatih - Carsamba quarter of Istanbul. It is Pammakaristos monastery church constructed in Byzantine Period. A grave chapel has been added with the end of the Latin invasion in 13th century. After the conquest, it remained under the control of Christians and used as a women's monastery, ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-fethiye-museum-pammakaristos.html Kariye is located at Edirnekapi section of Istanbul. The dictionary meaning of Kariye (Caria) is 'outside of the city', or 'rural' in old Greek. The existence of a chapel outside the city walls in very old is mentioned in some sources. The first Khora Church was built on the site ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-caria-museum.html The Directorate of Istanbul Archeology Museums that is dependent on the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey is on the Osman Hamdi Bey Ascent that opens to the Topkapi Palace Museum from the right of the Gulhane Park Entry which ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-archeology-museum.html The castle covering seven acre area and giving its name to the location was built by Sultan Beyazid I (Yildirim) as the front military station of Ottoman in 1395. The building was added 'Hisarpence', storehouse and some residental buildings by Mehmed II. In 1928 some repair works were made by ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/istanbul-anadolu-hisari.html Etenna, which is 29 km. north of Manavgat, is founded on the hill, is at the upper part of today's Sirt Village. At the top of the city, it is thought as a bishop center during Byzantium period, there is an Acropolis, which is composed of terraces surrounded by ramparts, ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/side-etenna.html To the northwest of Manavgat are the remains of the ancient city of Seleukeia, situated within the $ihlar settlement unit. The city is known to have been founded as a fortified acropolis town to be used as a final defence and protection site in the case of an attack on ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/side-seleukeia-lyrbe.html Near the village of Kocahisar (Eski Kahta), Yeni Kale was constructed by the Commagenes and used alongside Arsameia, opposite. The castle, which was restored by the Romans and then the Mamluks, had its most recent renovations in the 1970s. Within the site are a bazaar, mosque, dungeon, aqueducts, dovecote ruins and ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/nemrut-new-castle.html According to inscriptions by Antiochus, Arsameia was the summer capital and administrative centre of the Kingdom, founded at the beginning of the 2nd century BC by Arsemez, a descendent of Kommadenes. An embossed pillar of Mitras is at the ceremonial road at the south, and an undamaged relief of Mithridates I ... http://www.turkeyholidaysguide.com/nemrut-arsameia-ruins.html