Monument
Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe's T-shaped pillars, raised by hunter-gatherers around 9600 BCE, made archaeologists rethink whether ritual came before farming…
Region
Turkey
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Gordion
The ancient capital of Phrygia — site of the Gordian Knot legend, tomb of the legendary King Midas,…
Area
Göreme Historical National Park
A wind-carved Cappadocian landscape of fairy chimneys and towering rock formations concealing ancient underground cities, designated UNESCO World…
Zone
Göreme National Park
Göreme National Park encompasses the central Cappadocia landscape in Anatolia, Turkey: a volcanic plateau eroded over millions of…
Zone
Göreme Open Air Museum
In the soft volcanic valleys of Cappadocia, early Christian monks carved their churches into the rock itself. The…
Building
Green Mosque, Bursa
A 15th-century Ottoman mosque in Bursa famous for its signature green and blue tile decorations, part of a…
Building
Hagia Sophia
A masterpiece of Byzantine engineering completed in 537, Hagia Sophia's revolutionary pendentive dome created the world's largest interior…
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Hagia Sophia
Cathedral, mosque, museum and mosque again: Hagia Sophia's sixth-century dome, raised on pioneering pendentives, shaped Ottoman and later…
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Harran — City of the Moon God, Abraham, and the Sabians
Continuously inhabited for 5,000 years on the plain of the upper Balikh river, Harran was the principal sanctuary…
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