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The Baradla Domica cave system is a large cave system in northern Hungary. As part of the Aggtelek Karst, it extends more than 25.5 km (25,500 m) and includes the 5.3 km (3.3 mi)…
Ishak Pasha Palace (Kurdish: Qesra Îshaq Paşa; Turkish: İshak Paşa Sarayı) is a semi-ruined palace and administrative complex located in the Doğubeyazıt district of Ağrı province…
Alanya Castle (Alanya Kalesi) is a medieval castle in the southern Turkish city of Alanya.
Myus (Ancient Greek: Μυοῦς), sometimes Myous or Myos, or Myes, was an ancient Greek city in Caria. It was one of thirteen major settlements of the Ionian League, and was one of…
Lake Bafa (Turkish: Bafa Gölü) also known as Lake Çamiçi (Turkish: Çamiçi Gölü) and in earlier times the Vafi Sea (Turkish: Vafi Denizi) is a lake situated in southwestern…
Abant Lake is a landslide dam lake in the district of Mudurnu in Bolu Province. Located 35 kilometres southwest of Bolu at an altitude of about 1,350 metres, the lake covers an…
The Yedigöller National Park (Turkish: Yedigöller, "seven lakes") also known as Seven Lakes National Park is located in the northern part of Bolu Province in Turkey. The park is…
Hagia Sophia mosque (lit. 'the Holy Wisdom'; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Turkish: Ayasofya) in İznik (Nicaea) in Bursa Province, Turkey, was built as a…
Lysimachia (Greek: Λυσιμάχεια) was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula) in the neck…
Pessinus (Greek: Πεσσινούς or Πισσινούς) was an ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia (Asian Turkey). The site of the…
Rumkale (lit. 'Roman Castle'; Armenian: Հռոմկլա, romanized: Hromgla) is a ruined fortress on the Euphrates, located in the province of Gaziantep and 50 km west of Şanlıurfa.
Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011. The…
Zincirli Höyük is an archaeological site located in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province. During its time under the control of the Neo-Assyrian Empire…
Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque (Turkish: Sancaktar Hayrettin Câmîi; also Sancaktar Hayrettin Mescidi, where Mescit is the Turkish word for a small mosque, or Sancaktar Mescidi) is…
The Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Zal Mahmut Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque located in the Eyüp district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was designed by the imperial…
Şakirin Mosque (Turkish: Şakirin Camii; pronounced Shakirin) is a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The building is located at one of the entrances of the historic Karacaahmet Cemetery…
The Zeynep Sultan Mosque (Turkish: Zeynep Sultan Camii) is a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1769 by Ayazma Mosque's architect Mehmet Tahir Ağa for Ahmed III's…
Aizanoi (Ancient Greek: Αἰζανοί), Latinized as Aezani, was an Ancient Greek city in western Anatolia. It was located at the site of the modern village of Çavdarhisar, near…
Tarḫuntašša (Hittite: 𒀭𒅎𒋫𒀸𒊭 and Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔖖𔓢𔕙𔑯𔗦: lit. 'City of Tarhunt') was a Bronze Age city in south-central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) mentioned in…
Karatepe (Turkish, 'Black Hill'; Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔐔𔖪𔑣𔗬𔐬𔓱, romanized: Azzattiwadaya; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤆𐤕𐤅𐤃𐤉, romanized: ʾztwdy) is a Neo-Hittite fortress and…
Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The site is in the same geographical region as Göbekli Tepe, and archaeologists have also…
Gonur Depe (Turkmen: Goňur depe) is an archaeological site, dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE, and located about 60 km north of Mary (ancient Merv), Turkmenistan consisting of a large…
Ajinateppa (Tajik: Аҷинатеппа, romanized: Ajinateppa, Russian: Аджина-Тепе) is a Buddhist monastery cluster located 12 kilometers east of the city of Bokhtar, Tajikistan.
Ala-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ала-Көл, also Алакөл, Russian: Ала-Куль, romanized: Ala-Kul) is a rock-dammed lake on the northern slope of the Terskey Alatau mountain range in the Ak-Suu…
