Edens of Turkey

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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 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.

Ordu (Κοτύωρα Greek, German transcription: Kotyora; French also Ordou) is the capital of the Turkish province of Ordu. The picturesque city is in a small bay on the eastern Black Sea coast and embedded counts more than 130,000 inhabitants.
Ordu is in the west of the 550 meter high, with thick green forests, mountain Boztepe overlooked. […]

Samsun is with more than 363,000 inhabitants, the largest Turkish city on the Black Sea and the capital of the province of Samsun.
Samsun is roughly in the middle of the Turkish Black Sea coast, about 850 km east of Istanbul and about 450 km north of Ankara. It is the main industrial and commercial city […]

The Turkish Black Sea region (Turkish Kara Deniz Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. This region represents approximately 18.1% of the Turkish state territory dar. Covering an area of 141,000 square km occupied land in the comparison of the seven regions 3 Square.