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Turkey
Aspendos Google Maps |
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Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey. It is located 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) north of Serik.
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Assos Google Maps |
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Assos is a small historically rich town in Behramkale, Turkey. Aristotle lived here and opened an Academy. The city was also visited by St. Paul. Today Assos is a Aegean-coast seaside retreat amid ancient ruins.
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Bergama Google Maps |
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Bergama (Pargauma/Pergamos: People of High City) refers to a city and its surrounding district in İzmir Province, in the Aegean Region of the Republic of Turkey. Known for its cotton, gold, and fine carpets, the city was in ancient times the Ancient Greece and Roman cultural center of Pergamon; its wealth of ancient ruins continues to attract considerable tourist interest today.
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Beypazarı Google Maps |
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Beypazarı, ancient Lagania, is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, approximately 100 km west of the city of Ankara.
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Cappadocia Google Maps |
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Cappadocia is located in Central Anatolia. A very special region with the houses, churches, underground cities carved in the rocks.
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Datça Google Maps |
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Datça is a district in Muğla Province of Turkey. At the very tip of the peninsula is the antique city of Knidos.
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Gallipoli Google Maps |
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Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.
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Mardin Google Maps |
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Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for its Arab-style architecture, and for its strategic location on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria. Mardin has a very mixed population, Turks, Assyrians, Aramean-Syriac people, Arabs and Kurds all represent large groups.
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Mount Ararat Google Maps |
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Mount Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey, located in the Iğdır Province, 16 km (10 mi) west of the Iranian and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Armenian border.
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Nicaea – İznik Google Maps |
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İznik (which derives from the former Greek name Nicaea) is a city in Turkey which is known primarily as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian church, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea. It served as the interim capital city of the Byzantine Empire between 1204 and 1261, following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261.
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Nemrut Google Maps |
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Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134 m (7,001 ft) high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the vast statues at a 1st century BC tomb on its summit.
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Pamukkale Google Maps |
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Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site and attraction in south-western Turkey in the Denizli Province.
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Tenedos Google Maps |
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Tenedos, officially named as Bozcaada (Turkish: Bozcaada or Bozca ada, Greek: Tenedhos) is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province in Turkey. Bozcaada/Tenedos has a population of about 2,500. The main industries are fishing and tourism.
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Troy Google Maps |
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Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Trojan refers to the inhabitants and culture of Troy. Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, Turkish Truva, in Hisarlık in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.
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