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The Şeyh Muhyiddin Mosque stands in the Ayaş district of Ankara province and is described by local heritage accounts as roughly 450 years old, which would place its construction…
The Kızıl Bey Mosque traces its origins to a charitable foundation established in Ankara by Kızıl Bey, who held the title of Melik-ül Ümera, a senior regional…
The Tabakhane Mosque sits at the foot of Ankara Castle on Ulus Kevgirli Street, close to the Bendderesi stream, and is thought to be roughly 600 years old. Its original name,…
Within the grounds of Ankara's Roman Baths, built in the third century AD under the emperor Caracalla and dedicated to Asclepios, god of healing, excavators uncovered a…
Hisar Kapısı is the main gate into the inner stronghold of Ankara Castle, the fortified citadel that rises over the oldest quarter of the Turkish capital. The hill has carried…
Parmak Kapı, or 'Finger Gate', is the main entrance to Ankara Castle, the hilltop citadel overlooking the old town of the Turkish capital. It is also known locally as Saatli…
The Myra Rock Tombs are a group of Lycian rock-cut burial chambers carved into the cliffs above the ancient city of Myra, near present-day Demre on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.…
The State Agora is a separate public square within the ruins of ancient Side, distinguished in descriptions of the site from the city's main commercial agora, which held a round…
The Agora of Aspendos was the public marketplace of this ancient Pamphylian city, built on a hill above the Eurymedon river some 40 kilometres east of Antalya. Aspendos is best…
The Agora of Side was the main public square of this ancient Mediterranean port city on Turkey's Antalya coast, founded as early as the seventh century BC and later flourishing…
The Süleyman Çavuş Mosque stands in the town centre of Kaş, on Turkey's Antalya coast, and is considered the oldest mosque still standing in the district. It was built in 1932,…
The Akseki Central Mosque stands in the Demirciler neighbourhood of Akseki, a mountain town in Antalya province that once served as an important staging post for trade between…
Alanya Citadel crowns a rocky peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean above the modern resort city of Alanya. Its oldest section, the inner citadel or İçkale, dates back to the…
The State Agora is one of the civic open spaces of Arykanda, an ancient Lycian city built across five steep terraces on a mountainside in Antalya province. Laid out in the fourth…
The bouleuterion of Arykanda was the meeting hall of the city council in this Lycian mountain settlement, built on one of the lower terraces that step down the steep slope on…
The basilica at Arykanda occupies the site of an earlier Roman temple built in honour of the imperial cult during the reign of the emperor Trajan, in the early second century AD.…
Arykanda's building with niches is identified with the Sebasteion, or Traianeum, a temple built for the cult of the Roman emperor Trajan during his reign in the early second…
The Hellenistic Gate stands at the southern edge of Perge, an ancient Pamphylian city about 18 kilometers east of Antalya in the Aksu district. It was built as part of the city's…
Antiochia ad Cragum was founded around 42 AD by Antiochos IV, the last king of Commagene, after Rome granted him this stretch of coastline in the rugged region once called…
Known locally as Kilise Camii, or Church Mosque, the New Mosque in Kaş began life as a Greek Orthodox church built in the nineteenth century on the peninsula side of the town…
The theatre of Patara sits on the northern slope of Kurşunlutepe at the southern edge of this ancient Lycian port city on Turkey's southwest coast. Construction began in the…
Carved in the fourth century BC, the Lion Sarcophagus stands at the top of Uzun Çarşı Sokak, the old Roman street climbing from the harbor through the center of Kaş, ancient…
The Sarcophagus of Merehi stands in the northern necropolis of Xanthos, the Lycian capital near today's village of Kınık, among a cluster of monumental tombs that also includes…
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…
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