Pergamon is an ancient city located in the Bergama district north of Izmir, Turkey. According to some records, Bergama means “high settlement/base” in the Hittite language and is known as Πέργαμος (Pergamon) in Greek. In written sources, the name of the city of Pergamon is mentioned for the first time at the beginning of the […]
Cappadocia is a touristic region in Turkey consisting of several provinces such as Nevşehir, Aksaray, Niğde, Kayseri and Kırşehir. The origin of the term Cappadocia is controversial. The word Cappadocia may have been derived from the word Katpatuka, which was used first by the Medes and then by the Persians, and finally by the Hellenes. […]
Istanbul is the most populous city in Europe and Turkey with a population of more than 16 million. The city is divided into two parts as the European part and the Asian part by the Bosphorus strait and lies between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. The city was founded under the name […]
Sardis is an ancient city located in the Salihli district of Manisa and was the capital of the Lydian civilization. The Lydians ruled this region between the 13th and 6th centuries BC. C. and is an important civilization of the Iron Age. Sardis is the place where the first coins were minted for the first […]
Laodicea ad Lycum is an ancient city located in Denizli. It was founded in the third century B.C. by Antiochus II, the king of the Seleucid Empire in honor of his wife, Laodice. Being one of the seven cities of Asia mentioned in the Book of Revelation and housing a large population of Jews since […]
Tire is a rural district in the south of İzmir whose physical features are made up by the alluvial plain of the Cayster River in the north and the mountains that separate this plain from the parallel alluvial valley of the Büyük Menderes River in the south, thus the main income of the town is […]
Hierapolis was an important center in the production of textile Hierapolis at the Lycus Valley lived its golden age in development in the 2nd and the 3rd centuries A.D. In the ancient sources it is written that the sheep of Hierapolis used to drink from a redolent river and for that reason their wool had […]
Ephesus is one of the largest and most visited ancient cities in Turkey. It is located in an urban district in the south of Izmir, called Selçuk. It is visited by approximately 2 million foreign and local tourists annually. It has many attractions such as the Great Theater of Ephesus (also mentioned in the Bible), […]
Pamukkale is a natural site found in the Denizli province of western Turkey and attracts more than 2 million visitors every year. It also houses the ancient city of Hierapolis that has some remains that can still be visited such as the ancient theater, the gymnasium, the mausoleum and the church of St. Philip, the […]
Türkiye is one of the most touristic countries in the world with more than 50 millions of visitors in a year. It is known as a place of interest which offers several different types of touristic activities such as cultural heritage tourism, rural tourism, eco tourism, mountain tourism, urban tourism, beach tourism and business tourism. […]
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