Archive for the ‘Antique Cities’ Category

Kusadasi - Kolophon and notion

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

notionKolophon

Kolophon (Degirmendere) is one of the twelve fon cities. Although it had a able fleet and army force, it has suffered abounding wars and has been disqualified by armament of Lydia, Persia and Macedonia even at times by sea pirates. When Kolophon was destroyed by Lysimakhos in 302 B.C. its neighbouring city, Notion (Ahmetbeyli) acquired importance. This city-limits which claimed Homer’s citizenship was aswell acclaimed with its Klaros Temple and the answer centre.

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Konya - Hadim Bolat Area Astra Archaic City

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

We accept two diffent seach for Hadim Bolat Breadth Astra Ancient City.

1)Astra ancient city-limits is amid in Temasalik Acropolis breadth of Bolat Breadth of Hadim District of Konya Province.Upon its getting accountable to big actionable excavations, it has been taken beneath aegis with a bouncer and has been adapted into a ruin abode affiliated to Konya Museum Directorate. But in 1955, its bouncer has retired.

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Konya - Karahuyuk

Monday, April 14th, 2008

History of Karahuyuk

The finds acquired in Karahoyuk until today accommodate advice apropos to the cultural and bartering relationships of the aeon to which they belong. It is the a lot of important centre of allowance art afore the Hittite Empire Aeon in the southern allotment of Mid Anatolia. Graffito, pot trademarks and some seals accommodate aid in the analysis of aboriginal stages of autograph in Anatolia. Among added finds, there are beak- mouthed baptize jugs, cups, clover- mouthed baptize jugs, rhytons, grape array shaped pots. Horse shoe shaped, formed altars, stoves and bisected moon shaped lintels are appropriate works of their periods.

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Konya - Kilistra

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Kilistra
KILISTRA
WHERE 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.

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Konya - Çatalhöyük

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Çatal Höyükcatalhoyuk

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Kemer - Chimera

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Chimera
THE ANTIQUE CITY IS ON BOTH SIDES OF A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY. A SANDY BEACH IS FOUND WHERE THE TOWN AND THE VALLEY MEET THE SEA, INTO WHICH A MOUNTAIN STREAM FLOWS. AN HOURS WALK FROM OLYMPOS BRINGS YOU TO THE NATURAL PHENOMENON OF THE CHIMERA. KNOWN BY THE INHABITANTS AS THE BURNING MOUNTAIN, IT IS A RESULT OF ESCAPING NATURAL GAS, WHOSE FLAMES HAVE BEEN SHOOTING HEAVENWARDS FOR CENTURIES. THE PATH TO THE CHIMERA IS NARROW AND STEEP BUT IS WELL MARKED. (more…)

Kemer - Olympos

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Kemer OlymposOlympos
Olympos is the Greek word/name “Ολυμπος”. Olympos is in a basin at the south bank of Turkey, 90 km southwest of Antalya city-limits abreast the Town of Kemer.The city-limits was founded in the Hellenistic period, apparently demography its name from adjacent Mount Olympos (Turkish: Tahtalı Dağı), or Tahtali Dag (Timber Mountains), one of over twenty mountains with the name Olympos in the Classical world.The bill of the city-limits of Olympos date aback to the 2nd aeon BC. It was declared by Cicero as an age-old city-limits abounding of abundance and works of art (Cicero, Against Verres II, 1, 4). The city-limits became one of the six arch cities of the Lycian federation. In the 1st aeon BC, Olympos was invaded and acclimatized by Cilician pirates. This concluded in 78 BC, if the Roman administrator Publius Servilius Isaurieus, accompanied by the adolescent Julius Caesar, took the city-limits afterwards a achievement at sea, and added Olympos to the Roman Empire. The charlatan Zenicetes set blaze to his own abode and asleep (Strabo, XIV, p5, Loeb ed.) The emperor Hadrian visited the city-limits afterwards which it took the name of Hadrianopolis for a period, in his honour.

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Kemer - Phaselis

Monday, April 7th, 2008

PhaselisPhaselis
Phaselis is an age-old Lycian city-limits in the arena of Antalya in Turkey. It is amid amid the Bey Mountains and the forests of Olympos National Park, 16 km west of the touristic boondocks of Kemer and on the 57th kilometre of the Antalya Kumluca highway. Phaselis and added age-old towns about the bank can aswell be accessed from the sea by circadian yacht tours. (more…)

Kelova - Ucagız Village

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Ucagız Village

You should see the tiny Mediterranean fishing apple of Üçağız afore it’s spoiled.

The best way is on a baiter bout from adjacent Kas or Çayagzi (near Demre-Myra).

Okay, Üçağız (EWCH-ah-uhz, “Three Mouths,” for the three rivers that debouche here) is no best the altogether accurate little Mediterranean bank apple that it was in 1990, but the government is attached new architecture so it’s still appealing nice.
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izmir - Sardis

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Sardis

Sardis, also Sardes, modern Sart in the Manisa province of Turkey, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, one of the important cities of the Persian Empire, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times.

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