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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 […]

Located adjacent to Istanbul white the greenery of Sile provides peace on one side, the aggressive Black Sea makes one’s blood boil on the other side. One has to be an excellent swimmer in order
to bathe in the sea here.
One of the major symbols of the town, the §ile Lighthouse, was built by Sultan Aziz […]

Polonezkoy is located on Istanbul’s Anadolu side, a cute place established on the hills of Beykoz, an old Polish village.
(Grandchildren of migrants settled into the village with the permission of Sultan Abdulmecit in the middle of the 1800% are still living in the village. The spring months witness the livening up of Polonezkoy. Alongside enjoyable […]

I he smallest of the islands, Kinaliada, is the island closest to Istanbul. When Marmara had been a clean sea, those who come to Ada by ferryboat, were impatient to jump into its cool waters as soon as possible. Nowadays the Ada residents prefer to cool off in the swimming pools of their clubs or […]

Heybeliada, is the second largest island both from the view point of its population and its surface area. With three high points named Umittepe (8$ meters), Degirmentepe (136 meters) andKoytepe (128 meters)’, the island also possesses three ports besides the military port. It is possible to $mm in the sea at Degirmenburnu and (Çamlimant. Reminiscent […]