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  Mevlevi Sema Ceremony

  Mevlevi Sema Ceremony Whirling Dervishes Sufi UNESCO Mevlana Ceremony

  The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony is a Sufi ceremony that symbolizes stages on the path to accessing God and contains religious elements and themes with detailed rules and characteristics. While this ceremony unique to the Mevlevi sect had no specific rules in Me...
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  Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi Ritual

  Semah Alevi Bektaşi Semah Training Course Music Turkish Music Pir Sultan Abdal Kaygusuz Abdal Nesim Bağlama Saz

  The semah performed during the service (cem) as required by Alevi and Bektaşi belief is a means of reaching God through mystical and aesthetic movements executed in harmony with the rhythm of music and song accompanied by a saz (Turkish stringed instrumen...
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  ÇANAKKALE

  Çanakkale Troy Gallipoli Mount Ida Bozcaada Tenedos Hot Springs Pınarbaşı Trojan War Aphrodite Hera Athena Sulphur Springs Ceramics Biga Assos

  Çanakkale is an honourable resting place for the soldiers who lost their lives in Gelibolu. The city of Çanakkale lies at the narrow 1200m entrance to the Çanakkale Strait (Dardanelles) that connects the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Passenger and car fe...
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  AYDIN

  Aydın Kuşadası Didim Bird Island Aegean Aphrodisias UNESCO Geyre Sculpture Sculpting School

  The city of Aydın, the homeland of tasteful figs takes you to the centre of ancient sculptures that inspire the modern arts. Known as Tralleis in ancient times, Aydın was the centre of a celebrated school of sculpture. The remains date from the second cen...
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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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  ADANA

  Adana Çukurova Ceyhan River Taşköprü Adana Kebab

  While history buffs can enjoy exploring the ruins of ancient cities, nature-lovers find repose breathing the cool, clean air in the Taurus Mountains. Set in the heart of the Çukurova (Cilician) Plain, Turkey’s fourth largest city Adana has a history that ...
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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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  ANAVARZA

  Anavarza Adana Anazarbus UNESCO Dioscorides

  According to available knowledge the history of the ancient city Anavarza (Anazarbus) goes back to 2100 years, and it has reached its zenith in the 2nd century BC when it was awarded by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus. Anavarza rapidly developed and be...
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  CUMALIKIZIK

  Cumalıkızık Bursa Ottoman Hanlar Bölgesi UNESCO

  Cumalıkızık is a settlement where the time seemingly stood still and the residents managed to have avoided the negative effects of modern lifestyle, which changes, even eradicates traditions and cultures while offering comfort. The friendliness of the peo...
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  BURSA

  Bursa Cumalıkızık Ottoman Empire İznik Chestnut İskender Kebab

  The city of Bursa, southeast of the Sea of Marmara, lies on the lower slopes of Mount Uludağ (Mt. Olympos of Mysia, 2543m), with the city deriving its name from its founder King Prusias of Bithynia. It subsequently came under Roman, then Byzantine rule be...