There are many churches around the Goreme Open Air Museum. The most commonly known structures are Tokali Church, Saint Eusthatios Church, Saint Daniel Chapel, Madonna (Virgin Mary) Church, Kiliglar Church, El Nazar Church, Sakli Church and Aynali Church. Tokali Church: It is located on the right side of the road around 50 km down to …
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Cappadocia Weather Climate
The altitude of the Cappadocia region is around 1100 meters. It has a continental climate where the summers are hot and rainless and the winters are cold and rainy. The winter starts from mid December and lasts until mid March and brings with it snow, while the Spring brings rain. Usually it doesn’t rain during …
Cappadocia of past and today
Land of Anatolia, that our country exists on it today, was named as “Small Asia” in old periods especially among the west societies. The region, which is called Cappadocia was used to define definite settlement and civilization region in Anatolia in antiquity.In Antiquity the region of Cappadocia was comprising very large geographical area compared to …
The community of Anatolia before the Hittites
During the Bronze Age, especially on the period between 3000 BC and 2000 BC, it is known that communities which tried to become a nation such as Hattis, LUVIs and Hurrians, have been existed on Anatolian lands. Unfortunately we do not have that much information about these communities. In recent years, the conception of these …
Okumaya devam et “The community of Anatolia before the Hittites”
Kaymakli Underground City
The underground cities, which enable us to understand more what fear force people to do, bring today the blues of the people who did not want to be killed or turned into slaves. Kaymakli Underground City make us feel this blues deeply through its each floor. Kaymakli borough is situated on 20th km of Nevsehir-Nigde …
The first inhabitants of Cappadocia during the Stone Age
The reason of Cappadocia’s importance is not only the natural formations. Rocks formed by tufa stone can easily worked up. Because of that they call attention of people. Archeological findings showed that Cappadocia is the settlement place from prehistoric period up to today. The foundlings from Paleolithic Age in Cappadocia prehistoria major on Neolithic Age …
Okumaya devam et “The first inhabitants of Cappadocia during the Stone Age”
The bases of the name Cappadocia
Persians, who came from the high plateaus of Iran, obtained Greece cities one by one in the period of classical age of Greece colonialism in Anatolia and they achieved to establish a big Persian Kingdom in Anatolia. It is coincided with the name of Cappadocia firstly in Persian inscription from this period. There is a …
Cappadocia Divine tableau in natural canvas
Sixty-five years ago two big old continents gradually approached each other which were in north and south in the middle of the period which will be named as Third Period later by the geologists and clash was inevitable at the end. After this clash Anatolia, which is between of the two continents, started to closely …
Okumaya devam et “Cappadocia Divine tableau in natural canvas”