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The acropolis of Olympos occupies the high ground above this ancient Lycian port city in the Kumluca district of Antalya province, within what is now Beydağları-Olympos National…
On the northern side of the Olympos ancient city, where the Lycian port once opened onto the sea, archaeologist Orhan Atvur of the Antalya Museum uncovered a pair of Roman-period…
The Ahi Yusuf Mosque in Antalya's old town began as a defensive bastion built into the Seljuk-era city walls. In the third quarter of the fifteenth century a guild leader named…
The Atabey Armağan Madrasa forms part of the Yivli Minare religious complex in Antalya's old city, and was built in 1239 or 1240 under the patronage of the Seljuk governor Atabey…
The Karatay Madrasa in Antalya was completed in 1250-51, as recorded in the inscription over its main gate naming Sultan II İzzeddin Keykavus and the corresponding year in the…
The Antalya Ethnography Museum occupies two restored nineteenth-century mansions in the old quarter of Kaleiçi, each given over to a different side of the city's recent past. The…
İskele Mosque is one of Antalya's smallest historic mosques, tucked beside the old harbor in Kaleiçi at the foot of the Kırkmerdiven stairway, opposite the Tekelioğlu House.…
Karakaş Mosque, also historically known as the Cafer Ağa Mosque, traces its origin to a fourteenth-century building on Atatürk Boulevard in Antalya's Kaleiçi district. The old…
Sultan Alaaddin Mosque, better known by its fluted minaret as Yivli Minare Camii, was built around 1230 under the Anatolian Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I and is also called…
Asartepe Castle, also known locally as Atburgazı Kale, crowns a hill above the village of Atburgazı in the Söke district of Aydın province. Built of rough rubble-work masonry…
The İlyas Bey Caravanserai belongs to a religious and civic complex built in 1404 by İlyas Bey, ruler of the Menteşe Beylik, within the grounds of the ancient city of Miletus…
The İlyas Bey Medrese is part of a small Ottoman religious and charitable complex built near the ancient ruins of Miletus, close to modern Balat in Söke district. The complex…
Kaleiçi Mosque stands in the old walled quarter of Kuşadası that gives the building its name, and is considered the town's oldest surviving mosque. It is also known locally as…
Üveys Pasha Mosque, in the Köprülü neighborhood of Aydın's Efeler district, is regarded as the oldest Ottoman mosque still standing in the city center. It is attributed to Kara…
Ramazan Pasha Mosque in central Aydın was first built in 1595 under the patronage of Ramazan Pasha, but the original structure was destroyed in the severe earthquake that struck…
Aphrodisias is an ancient city in the Caria region of southwestern Anatolia, near the modern village of Geyre in Aydın province. Archaeological traces of settlement go back to…
Cihanoğlu Mosque, in the Köprülü neighborhood of Aydın, is the centerpiece of an eighteenth-century religious complex built by Müderris Abdülaziz Efendi, a member of the…
The Agora of Priene formed the civic heart of the ancient Ionian city of Priene, which was laid out on a terraced slope of Mount Mycale in what is now Söke district, Aydın…
Bandırma Museum is an archaeological museum in the Paşabayır neighborhood of Bandırma, in Balıkesir province. Its creation was first pushed forward by a local civic association…
Kurşunlu Mosque, on Kurşunlu Boulevard in the Kapıcıbaşı quarter, is counted as the oldest building standing in Edremit, with local accounts tracing its origin to the thirteenth…
The Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Ayvalık occupies a former olive oil factory that is roughly two centuries old, one of the town's significant surviving pieces of industrial heritage…
The Taxiarchs Church in Ayvalık is considered the oldest known church in the town and today functions as a monument museum. Its building history unfolded in three main phases: a…
Haydar Çavuş Mosque in Bandırma is remembered chiefly for an episode from the final days of the Greek occupation of the town during the Turkish War of Independence. As occupying…
Yıldırım Mosque is regarded as the oldest mosque in Balıkesir, built in the late fourteenth century under the patronage of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, known as Yıldırım,…
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