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  How To Get Around Turkey – Traveling Long Distance

  Travel trip Turkey ferry bus train plain

  Turkey might be a bigger country than you realize. It’s over twice the size of Germany and bigger than, say, Norway, Greece and the United Kingdom combined. So it’s not surprising that there’s a lot of different kinds of terrain to see. But how do you get...
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  Modern Fairs, Ancient Sites: A Trip to Bergama!

  Ancient City of Pergamon ancient city pergamon kingdom Turkey theater culture Bergama festival UNESCO Ephesus İzmir

  Bergama is a city whose history dates back 8,500 years, and was made the world's 999th UNESCO World Heritage City in 2014. It was originally one of the most important and magnificent settlements of the Hellenistic period in the 7th century B.C.. There are...
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  Mount Nemrut: The Secrets Of The Commagene Kingdom

  Turkey Adiyaman Nemrut Mount Nemrut Mount history sculpture kingdom Commagane Kingdom Commagane

  The haunting sculptures overlooking Mount Nemrut are some of the most magnificent that you'll find anywhere in the world. Giant heads built in the 1st century B.C. under the Commagene Kingdom look out over an incredible sunrise and sunset every day. These...
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  PAMUKKALE

  Pamukkale Hierapolis Denizli Health St. Philip Church of Columns Direkli Kilise Martyrium UNESCO

  A Marvel of Nature and a Roman City side by side Pamukkale appears in almost every list of places to be seen before you die and visited by almost two million tourists each year. Pamukkale is a place where nature assumed the role of artist and created such...
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  NEMRUT

  Nemrut Adıyaman Commagene Kingdom Mountain Giant Eagle Royal Kahta UNESCO

  The Mount Nemrut is one the highest peaks of the Mesopotamia, and its summit at 2,206 metres above the sea level contains the tomb of King Antiochus I of Commagene, commissioned by himself. The gigantic statues of gods, each weighing 6 tons and 10 metres ...
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  BERGAMA (PERGAMON)

  Bergama Pergamon İzmir Museum of Bergama Aegean Pergamon Library Alexander the Great

  Pergamon was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014, and it has been one the rare settlements that has survived several invasions and devastations over the ages, but reoccupied again on the merits of its strategic location. As confirmed by th...
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  ADIYAMAN

  Nemrut Mount Nemrut Adıyaman Eskikale Comagene Apollo Zeus Hercules Tyche Antiochus Kahta Nemrut Dağı National Park Fırat

  Mount Nemrut of Adıyaman is fabulous both at sunrise and sunset, with statues of ancient gods whispering into your ear to wow you. Adıyaman has been the stage for a number of civilisations and the location for many culturally important cities. The Archaeo...
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  KARS

  Kars Archaeological Site of Ani Lake Çıldır Silk Road Kuyucuk UNESCO

  Kars, a transit point between Anatolia and the Caucasus, has an outstanding beauty in itself, magnified by Ani Ruins- a medieval city once called "City of 1001 Churches". Kars is located at the transit point from Anatolia into the Caucasus. Visitors can e...
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  Another Weekend Amidst The Fertile Soils Of Mesopotamia!

  Turkey ancient history Nemrut Adiyaman Sanliurfa Commagene mount museum Yesemek cittaslow Halfeti Mesopotamia weekend

  In part 1 we took you through a couple of the sights of Mesopotamia, but unsurprisingly this is a region where the sights to see simply don’t end. It’s a fantastic place to discover the roots of civilization itself over the course of a long weekend, so bu...
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  UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Turkey

  UNESCO World Heritage Sites Turkey İstanbul Göreme National Park Cappadocia Great Mosque Hospital of Divriği Hattusha Nemrut Xanthos-Letoon Hierapolis Pamukkale Safranbolu Troy Selimiye Mosque Çatalhöyük Pergamon Bursa Cumalıkızık Diyarbakır Fortress Hevsel Gardens Ephesus Ani Aphrodisias Göbeklitepe

  Göbeklitepe (2018) There are substantial grounds to claim that the most significant archaeological discovery of the 21st century is the Göbeklitepe (Potbelly Hill). First of all, it dates back to 12 thousand years ago. In other words, it's 4 thousand year...