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CAPPADOCIA
The earliest record of the name of Cappadocia dates from the late 6th century BC, when it appears in the trilingual inscriptions of two early Achaemenid |
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| » Goreme Open Air Museum |
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GOREME OPEN AIR MUSEUM
The Goreme Open-Air Museum resembles a vast monastic complex composed of scores of refectory monasteries placed side- |
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| » Derinkuyu Underground City |
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There are so many underground cities at Cappadocia area of Turkey. No one can know how many underground city there are. The biggest and deepest is Derinkuyu Underground City. There are eight floo |
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| » Ihlara Valley |
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Ihlara Valley, which is a 14 km (9 mi) long gorge cut into volcanic rock in the southern part of Cappadocia, following several eruptions of Mount Erciyes. The Melendiz Stream flows through the va |
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| » Pasabagi Valley |
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Pasabag in Cappadocia is located on the road to Zelve, coming from Goreme or Avanos. Highly remarkable earth pillars can be seen here, in the middle of a vineyard, hence the name of the |
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| » Pigeon Valley |
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Near Uchisar is a valley that has become quite popular with hikers. It is known by many names (Valley of the Pigeon Lofts, Dovecote Valley, Pigeon Valley) but they all refer to the thousands of |
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| » Avanos |
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Avanos is about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Göreme. The town has a lively shopping center with all the usual amenities including a modern, tourist orientated hamam (Turkish Bath). A tra |
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| » Cavusin Village |
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Çavuşin is a village about 4 kilometres from Göreme. The photos old village is largely deserted because the area has been plagued by rock falls. For this reason it is best to take a g |
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| » Zelve Open Air Museum |
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Zelve, which once housed one of the largest communities in the region is an amazing cave town, honeycombed with dwellings, religious and secular chambers. Here, the Christians and Moslem |
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| » Ortahisar |
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Ortahisar, which means middle fortress in Turkish, can be reached by turning right at the 15th km on the Nevşehir - Ürgüp road, and then continuing for one more kilometer. After turni |
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| » Urgup |
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Ürgüp is about 7 kilometers from Göreme and is a modern town catering to the needs of tourists as well as a market town for the whole area on Saturdays.
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| » Mustafapaşa - (Sinassos) |
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In the strange and wonderful landscape of Cappadocia is the old, tranquil and picturesque town of Mustafapaşa 5 km from Ürgüp and 10 km from Goreme. Known formerly as Sinassos, this i |
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| » Sultan Sazlığı Bird Paradise |
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This wetland, located in the middle of the Yeşilhisar-Develi Plain and known as Sultansazlığı (Sultan Marsh), consists of a freshwater marsh covered with reeds in its southern section, the sa |
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