Simena Ancient City

Simena Ancient City Simena Ancient City, known as Kaleköy today, is a small Lycian coastal city and has been a strategic point that has been inhabited since the 4th century B.C. The ruin that reflects this feature most vividly is the castle, which has remained intact until today, and it is possible to watch the [...]
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Aspendos Ancient City

Aspendos Ancient City The name of Aspendos Ancient City is seen as “Estvediya” on the 5th 4th century B.C Aspendos coins and it is a city that minted coins in its own name like Side. The name of Aspendos, a member of the Attica-Delos Sea Union, came to the fore in 468 BC when the [...]
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Perge Ancient City

Perge Ancient City or Perga was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, now located in Antalya Province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Today Perge Ancient City ruins lie 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Antalya. It was the birthplace of the Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga, one of the [...]
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Saint John Basilica

Saint John Basilica was a basilica in Ephesus. It was constructed by Justinian I in the 6th century. It stands over the believed burial site of John the Apostle. It was modeled after the now lost Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. Saint John Basilica is on the slopes of Ayasuluk Hill, right next to the İsa Bey Mosque, just below the fortress [...]
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Red Basilica

Red Basilica (Turkish: Kızıl Avlu), also called variously the Red Hall and Red Courtyard, is a monumental ruined temple in the ancient city of Pergamon, now Bergama, in western Turkey. The temple was built during the Roman Empire, probably in the time of Hadrian and possibly on his orders. It is one of the largest Roman structures still surviving in the ancient Greek world. The temple is [...]
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Pergamon Ancient City

Pergamon Ancient City or Pergamum Ancient City, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. It is located 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus (modern-day Bakırçay) and northwest of the modern city of Bergama,  Turkey. During the Hellenistic period, it became [...]
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Sirince

Sirince, also known as Kirkintzes, is a village of 600 inhabitants in İzmir Province, Turkey, located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the town Selçuk and about 8 kilometres from Ephesus. The area around the village has history dating back to Hellenistic period (323–31 BC). Pottery finds made around the village between 2001 and 2002 by Ersoy and Gurler indicate the [...]
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House of Virgin Mary

House of the Virgin Mary (Turkish: Meryemana Evi or Meryem Ana Evi, "Mother Mary's House") is a Catholic shrine located on Mt. Koressos (Turkish: Bülbüldağı, "Mount Nightingale") in the vicinity of Ephesus, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from  Selçuk in Turkey. House of Virgin Mary was discovered in the 19th century by following the descriptions in the reported visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), [...]
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Uchisar

Uchisar is a village in Cappadocia, in Nevşehir province, Turkey. It is 7 kilometres east of Nevşehir, 12 kilometres west of  Ürgüp, and 10 kilometres south of Avanos. Situated on the edge of Göreme National Park, Uçhisar consists of an old village huddled around the base of a huge rock cone and a new one closer to the road that runs from Nevşehir [...]
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Ihlara Valley

Ihlara Valley (often misspelled as Ilhara Valley), near Mount Hasan and Mount Melendiz (two of the three volcanoes of Cappadocia) is a canyon with a depth of approximately 100m and was formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It begins at Ihlara village and ends with Selime Monastery at Selime village after making 26 [...]
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