Konya - Kilistra
KILISTRAWHERE IS KILISTRA?
Archaic city Kilistra is located 49 km south-west of Gökyurt / Hatunsaray.
HISTORY
The adjustment in Kilistra is believed to be accustomed aboriginal during the Hellenistik and Roman Times (BC 2nd century- AD 3rd century) according to aftereffect of the archeological works.During the blasting the name Kilistra1 was begin an book on a Roman epitaph from the eastern grape must- abode getting acclimated as a threshhold stone.
Kilistra, during the Byzantine age (BC 8th century- AD 13th century), aswell appears to accept rock- carved adjustment agnate to the ones in Cappadocia. Lystra, one of the Anatolian cities, is one the way amid Ikonion (Konya) and Pisda Antiocheia (Yalvac). It’s on the acclaimed King’s Road. St. Paulos, whose name is mentioned in the Bible, is believed to accept chock-full by on his journey.Timotoes, to whom the agent Paulos beatific his letters, is aswell from Lystra.
The name accustomed to the region, today ‘Paulonu’, breadth the ‘Sumbul’ini abbey is located, is an affirmation that his name is still getting remembered.
The humans of Lystra, who had accustomed Christianity during the Roman times, are believed to accept alleged the aerial breadth to assure themselves adjoin assaults from the Paganists masses and looters. One of the a lot of important hidden cities that is explored is Kilistra.
Today the humans of Gokyurt are acclimatized on the age-old city-limits of Kilistra. The excavations acknowledge that during the Byzantium period, Turks lived calm with the citizenry of the Kilistra. There is aswell affirmation that the drifting tribes who mostly aloft animals had been fabricated to reside there during the Ottoman period.
How to appointment Kilistra?
You can ability the age-old city-limits of Kilistra advancing from the administration of Lystra (Hatunsaray) by afterward the King’s avenue amid in the east of Hatunsaray. Afterward the King’s avenue allows you to appearance the absolute bedrock attic of that route. This avenue will advance you to the Devrek breadth with the celebratory belfry and badge base architecture authoritative the city-limits entrance. If you chase the aged alley to the city-limits center, you can analyze the affair hall, archetypal caves, aged tombs and a amount of added accessible buildings.
The cantankerous - shaped chapel, Sandikkay, in the south is an altered and absorbing architecture with the autogenous and exoteric carved from one section of rock. Around the abbey are commutual buildings.
The added access of the King’s avenue traveling over to the west aswell has an celebratory belfry and badge station. There is aswell a alembic breadth you’ll acquisition Kapci cave’ which was acclimated in ceramics authoritative in the latest periods. There is aswell apple mension adjacent in the apple centermost breadth you can get things such as food, drinks, etc.
The next capital website is the Sumbul church, alleged the ‘Paulonu Location’ by the villagers. It is south - west of the apple mansion. To the west of the apple mansiyon you can appointment the alembic (Katirini), bifold - wine houses (must-house) in the sogutlu beck bed and irrigation trenches. In the Paulonu breadth one can appearance all the tones of blooming and see attributes and history ancillary by ancillary in the basin .While traveling to the admirable alembic on the arctic of the Ardicli Hill, you can see the awe-inspiring bouldered tombs in the nekropal you can see the awe-inspiring bouldered tombs in the nekropal area.The admirable alembic (Katirini) is a three - naved, arresting rock, one of the a lot of adorable assets of the cite. Turkish grape - houses forth the beck bed and their baptize - channels on the western ancillary of the alembic are aswell account seeing as the buildings.
Architecture
Kilistra age-old city-limits was set up during aboriginal Byzantium ages on 5 altered places in accordance with the accustomed bedrock accumulation in the region. Concealment is the capital ambition in the enactment costruction of the bedrock carved city. From the exterior, the adjustment appears to be a accustomed bedrock but in autogenous there are ample carved spaces. Illumination and blast had been provided by hidden loopholes. In the website there are religious barrio (i.e.,chapels and churches), accessible barrio (i.e., houses, cisterns, fountains, wine - houses, etc.), and barrio for aegis and aegis purposes (i.e., watch towers, billet and shelters).
The active urbanized anatomy is abruptness appearance houses acceptable to the topographic structures. While the humans backpack on application the accessible - fabricated old spaces in the artist carved in the rocks by alteration their functions, they use the stones cut from the rocks as the capital abstracts and shaped the buildings. The barrio are in bedrock from the basal to the top, and accept ample apartment and collapsed roofs.
Daily Life
Agriculture and banal adopting are the capital activities of the humans of Gokyurt village. Because of the geological appearance of the land, agronomics in some areas are to be agitated out by beastly power.
Horses, donkeys and mules are acclimated for this purpose. Annihilate is an important vegetable buried in the village, and it is an important attitude of weddings that annihilate is to be served at the women’s table.
Pickled azarole and agrarian plum, broiled agrarian pear, and a kitchen of the vicinity. Viniculture is actual common, and there is affluence of Pekmez (thick abstract fabricated by baking down the civil abstract of any affectionate of fruit) production. Honey assembly in classical methods is of accent in the apple economy. Women aswell accord to the plan in the field, banal raising, and abiding works. The handicrafts and aberrant accept its acceptable roots.
How to go to Kilistra?
You can ability to Kilistra (Gokyurt) from the 15 km city alley by active appear the southeastern of the Konya -Hakunsaray alley which is about 34 km.lt is aswell accessible to go to Kilistra from the 15 km counterbalanced alley by active appear south from the 34th km of Konya - Antalya Highway.
Accomodation
Gokyurt is a baby admirable apple that keeps acceptable Turkish accommodation alive. The apple abode is acceptable for all-around groups. The abode was a accessible architecture ahead and has been restored, avant-garde and continued by abacus addition adventure on the building.
Natural Beauty
The bedrock formation, akin bogie chimneys, formed by the agitable tuff capped rocks still continues through the basin breadth the apple is located. The basin is apparent as if it were a backwoods of rocks, and gives across-the-board angle from the watching places in the adjustment area. All tones of blooming are apparent in the around which is covered with frondescence that has bounded characteristics in the four seasons. The frondescence anatomy is abrade breed mostly apparent attye bottom of Taurus Mountains. The oak forests consisting of ash tree, Mediterranean medlar, agrarian pear, agrarian plum, oleaster and rose hip copse with walnut, almond copse accord admirable accustomed view. The agrarian activity in the backwoods anatomy cotinues in abounding variety.
The abrade bulb growing like a broad timberline accepting agrarian grape - like bake-apple in bunches called by the villagers as ‘Gilabba’ (Gilabori - Viburnum opulus) is captivated for bloom affliction purposes.