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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 […]
April 14th, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | No Comments
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 […]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities, History & Heritage | No Comments
The Neolithic website of ÇatalHöyük was aboriginal apparent in the backward 1950s and biconcave by James Mellaart in 4 blasting seasons amid 1961 and 1965. The website rapidly became acclaimed internationally due to the ample admeasurement and close activity of the settlement, as able-bodied as the amazing bank paintings and added art that was baldheaded central […]
April 11th, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | 1 Comment
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 […]
April 11th, 2008 | Posted in Antalya City Guide, Antique Cities, History & Heritage | No Comments
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 […]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Antalya City Guide, Antique Cities | No Comments
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 […]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in Antalya City Guide, Antique Cities | No Comments
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 […]
April 5th, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | No Comments
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.
April 4th, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | No Comments
Tlos
It is in Yaka Village at a distance of 35 km to Fethiye. Although the city is spread over a large area, the ruins are focused in and around the acropolis. The dominant appearance of the acropolis at the city entrance impress the visitors. The surrounding of the acropolis hill having a natural protection with […]
April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | No Comments
The actual website of Bogazkoy (Hattusas) is amid at 82 km to the southwest of Corum and it is 208 km from Ankara. Bogazkoy (Hattusas) website which was amid at the amount arena of the Hittite accompaniment is at the southern end of the Budakozu River valley, at an acclivity of 300 metres from the […]
April 1st, 2008 | Posted in Antique Cities | 1 Comment