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  BALIKESİR

  Balıkesir Ayvalık Cunda Island Cunda Alibey Island Burhaniye Edremit Aegean Sea Devils Table

  In the province of Balıkesir interesting historical sites seem to harmoniously blend with nature. The mid-14th century Yıldırım Mosque, built by Beyazıt I, is the city's oldest mosque while the Zağnos Paşa Mosque, built by and named after the Grand Vizier...
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  Traditional Craftsmanship of Çini-Making

  Çini Çini-Making Craftsmanship UNESCO Çinicilik

  Glazed tile and ceramic household stuffs or wallboards of several colours and motifs made by firing the pulped clay soil are called "çini". Çini-making means the craftsmanship shaped around traditional Turkish art of çini since 12th century with its own s...
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  Ebru

  Ebru Art of Ebru UNESCO Marbling

  Ebru is the traditional art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to a special paper. It has been a traditional art of book enriching calligraphy and binding books...
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  HATAY

  Hatay Antakya Mosaic İskenderun Alexandretta Samandağ Monastery of St. Simon Daphne Apollo Harbiye

  Mosaics adding an aura of great value to a centre where all faiths meet together with a culinary art worth exploring. Hatay is an inexhaustible treasure house of history and a centre of civilization. The evidence of the earliest settlement extends back as...
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  BARTIN

  Bartın Amasra Çakraz Sesamos Parthenios İnkum Troy

  Parthenios of ancient times, Bartın impresses visitors with its timbered houses that reflect a different artistic taste. Bartın, Parthenios of ancient times, is a pretty city full of timbered houses that holds a strawberry festival every year in the sprin...
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  BALAT AND FENER

  Fener Balat Haliç Golden Horn Religion İstanbul Synagogue

  The estuary, Haliç in Turkish, was called as the Golden Horn by the Byzantines. According to legend it was formed by the thrust of Io’s horns that was transformed into a heifer by Zeus. Another legend relates that the plentiful palamut fish (Atlantic boni...
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  EDİRNE

  Edirne Selimiye Mosque Oil Wrestling Adrianople

  In the north of Tekirdağ on the border between Greece and Turkey, Edirne (Adrianople) is located, which was for some years the Ottoman capital. In the 18th century, it was one of the seven largest cities in Europe. Set on a verdant plain of poplar trees n...
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  SİVAS

  Sivas Kangal UNESCO Kangal Dog Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği Ulu Mosque Divriği Winter Sports

  As an important commercial centre during the Middle Ages, Sivas stood at the junction of the caravan routes to Persia and Baghdad. Between 1142 and 1171 it was the capital of the Danişmend Emirs and a vitally important urban centre during Seljuk rule. The...
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  SİNOP

  Sinop Diogenes the Cynic Gerze Akkum Miletians

  The northernmost tip of Turkey welcomes you to the homeland of the famous philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic. Sinop is one of the most beautiful natural harbours of Turkey's Black Sea coast. The first evidence of civilization here dates back to 4500 BC. It w...
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  NİĞDE

  Niğde Aladağlar Hittite Eskigümüş Alaeddin Mosque Assyrians

  Nahita of Hittite times sheltering ancient civilizations and natural beauties. Niğde, Nahita of Hittite times, lies in a valley flanked by volcanic peaks that command the ancient trade route from Anatolia to the Mediterranean. The history of the city goes...