The area south and west of the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles is the general district of Mysia with Pergamon (Bergama) and Cyzicus (Erdek) the main cities. Mysians are among those named by Homer as allies of Troy. Mysia was a region in the northwest of […]
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Semistra seems to be the name of the first settlement of people on the Golden Horn some time during the first millennium B.C. This was at the head of the Horn where the two streams, Cydaris (Ali Bey Suyu) and Barbysus (Kâğıthane Suyu), come together. In the ninth […]
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The ruins of the city of Pessinus are about 15 kilometers south of the town of Sivrihisar and on the left bank of the Sangarius (Sakarya) River. What is left includes a theater and the foundations of the famous temple to Cybele. Pieces of the marble wall […]
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İznik, historically known as Nicea , is a town and an administrative district in the Province of Bursa, Turkey. The town lies in a fertile basin at the eastern end of Lake İznik, bounded by ranges of hills to the north and south. As the crow flies […]
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Hattusa Boğazkale, Yazılı Kaya, and Alaca Höyük are archeological sites east of Ankara and north of Yozgat. Boğazkale, the double walled city above the present village of Boğazköy, was known as Hattusas and was the capital of the Hittite Old Kingdom around 1700 B.C. The Hittites were […]
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The present capital of Turkey, Ankara, was founded by Phrygians in the eighth century B.C. Among the interesting places to see there is what is left of the Temple of Augustus. This was reconstructed from an earlier temple as thanks to Augustus tor the city’s semi-independence. On […]
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Carchemish lies a few kilometers south of Birecik on the Euphrates River. Near the village of Barak on the west bank of the river can be found the few ruins of what was once the capital of one of the most powerful of the Hittite kingdoms. The […]
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Paul and Barnabas went from Lystra to Derbe after Paul the Apostle had recovered from being stoned. An altar stoııe has been found in Kerti Höyük with an inscription that has the names of Derbe and Bishop Michael carved on it. Without other evidence of the city it […]
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Adramyttium was founded in the fourth century B.C. by Lydian kings as one of their points of defense. Behind the town rise the slopes of Kaz Dağı, the Mt. Ida, “many-fountained Ida” of Tennyson’s “Oenone” where Paris gave up his pastoral life for a romance with Helen. […]
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It is appropriate to begin the description of the biblical sites of the New Testament with Antioch, the most southern of those in Turkey, because this is where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians. After the stoning of Stephen for blasphemy in Jerusalem in about […]
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The big tip is to try and go completely private. Many of the large tour companies offer private tour and they are going to charge a significant amount of money for the tour guide. However, many locations offer self-guided tours and therefore you have the ability to supply your own tour guide. Easily Book your guided private Ephesus tours, to see all the treasures of Ephesus Turkey. It's often said that Turkey has more ancient cities and classical ruins than does Greece. Well, it's true, and the Aegean coast holds a great number of sites, including Ephesus, the grandest and best-preserved of them all.
