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Aspendos
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Aspendos

Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey. It is located 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) north of Serik.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspendos

Assos
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Assos

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assos
http://wikitravel.org/en/Assos

Bergama
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Bergama

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergama
http://wikitravel.org/en/Bergama

Beypazarı
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Beypazarı

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beypazar%C4%B1

Cappadocia
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Cappadocia

Cappadocia is located in Central Anatolia. A very special region with the houses, churches, underground cities carved in the rocks.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
http://wikitravel.org/en/Cappadocia

Datça
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Datça

Datça is a district in Muğla Province of Turkey. At the very tip of the peninsula is the antique city of Knidos.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat%C3%A7a

Ephesus
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Ephesus

Ephesus was a city of ancient Anatolia. The archaeological site is located in the İzmir Province.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus

Gallipoli
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Gallipoli

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galipoli
http://wikitravel.org/en/Gallipoli

Mardin
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Mardin

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardin

Mevlana Museum
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Mevlana Museum

The Mevlana museum, located in Konya, Turkey, is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlana or Rumi.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlana_Museum
http://wikitravel.org/en/Konya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlana

Mount Ararat
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Mount Ararat

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat

Nicaea – İznik
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Nicaea – İznik

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikaea

Nemrut
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Nemrut

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut
http://wikitravel.org/en/Kahta

Olympos
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Olympos

Olympos is a valley at the south coast of Turkey, 90 km southwest of Antalya city near the Town of Kemer.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympos
http://wikitravel.org/en/Olympos_%28Turkey%29

Pamukkale
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Pamukkale

Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site and attraction in south-western Turkey in the Denizli Province.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale
http://wikitravel.org/en/Pamukkale

Safranbolu
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Safranbolu

Safranbolu is a district and a town of Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safranbolu
http://wikitravel.org/en/Safranbolu

Sümela Monastery
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Sümela Monastery

Sümela Monastery is located in Trabzon Province, the monastery stands at the foot of a steep cliff.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCmela_Monastery
http://wikitravel.org/en/Trabzon

Tenedos
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Tenedos

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenedos
http://wikitravel.org/en/Tenedos

Troy
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Troy

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
http://wikitravel.org/en/Troy_%28Turkey%29

Zeugma
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Zeugma

Zeugma is an ancient city of Commagene; currently located in the Gaziantep Province of Turkey.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_(city)