ANITKABIR Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Located in the heart of Ankara, this mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is reason enough to visit Ankara. Having served as a military officer in the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk led the Turkish National Movement in the Turkish War of Independence after […]
SULTANAHMET CAMİİ (BLUE MOSQUE) About Blue Mosque The Blue Mosque (Called Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish) is an historical mosque in Istanbul. The mosque is known as the Blue Mosque because of blue tiles surrounding the walls of interior design.Mosque was built between 1609 and 1616 […]
Aphrodisias, ancient city of the Caria region of southwestern Asia Minor (Anatolia, or modern Turkey), situated on a plateau south of the Maeander River (modern Büyük Menderes). Remains of an Ionic temple of Aphrodite and of a stadium and portions of a bathhouse have long […]
The Church of Mary The Church of Mary (Meryem Kilisesi) is a church of great historical significance located in . It is also known as the Double Church, because it is thought one aisle was dedicated to the Virgin and the other to St. John, […]
Church in Ephesus Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of available-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the old Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian […]
Hierapolis was founded as a thermal spa early in the 2nd century BC within the sphere of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus the Great sent 2,000 Jewish families to Lydia and Phrygia from Babylon and Mesopotamia, later joined by more from Judea. The Jewish community grew […]
One of the characteristics of Cappadocia is having plenty of underground cities. It’s known that there are more than a hundred of underground settlements in the region and many of them are not open for visits. The underground cities, which are guessed to be used […]
Hagia Sophia means “Divine Wisdom” in Greek, this was an Orthodox church dedicated to holly wisdom, not to a Saint Sophia as some people wrongly call it today. Hagia Sophia is the one of the most visited museums and most prominent monuments in the world […]
As if plucked from a whimsical fairytale and set down upon the stark Anatolian plains, Cappadocia is a geological oddity of honeycombed hills and towering boulders of otherworldly beauty. The fantastical topography is matched by the human history here. People have long utilised the region’s […]
Like many places in Anatolia, the history of Antalya is also very old. In the 2nd century BC, the King of Pergamum, Attalus II was founded on the order of “Go and find me the heaven on earth!” and its name was taken from II […]
