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Göreme

Goreme is a place in Cappadocia, in the province of Nevsehir in Turkey. The place was called into the Byzantine period Matiana, then Avcılar until it in the 1980s for tourism in Goreme, originally a term for the area of the nearby cave churches, has been renamed.
The town is the centre of the National Park […]

Abant lake

The Abant Lake is located 34 km southwest of the Turkish city of Bolu. The lake is located in one of spruce and pine-lined nature park.
The amount ü.Normalnull is 1350 m. The area is 125 hectares, and the lowest point is 18 m. In the water trout live, in the literature as Salmo trutta abanticus […]

Assos

Assos (Άσσος) is an ancient city on the southwest coast of Troas in the Turkish province of Canakkale, the city is now Behramkale.
History
The municipal court, a 234 m high cliffs of dark Trachyte directly on the sea, was already in the Bronze Age. In the 7th Century BC was Assos of Methymna on the […]

Myra (Lycia)

Myra is an ancient city in Lycia, now Turkey. The place is now called Demre (formerly Kale). Myra is known as a place of pilgrimage because of the then-born Nicholas of Myra (* 280/286 in Patara in Lycia; † 345/351).
History
Myra was since 6 Century BC, one of the six largest cities in the Lycian Federation. […]

Kaş

Kaş is a city in the Turkish province of Antalya and district capital of the same district Kaş.
The town has about 10,000 residents and is wedged between the foothills of the AkDag Mountains (3080m) in the sea about 180 km southwest of Antalya.