Turkey Important Tour Reservation
The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the region that forms the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia and Eastern Thrace. These two previously politically distinct regions came under the control of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC and eventually became the core of the Byzantine Empire. A distinction must also be made between the history of the Turkish peoples for times before the Ottoman period and the history of the lands that now constitute the Republic of Turkey.[1][2] Since the time when parts of Turkey were conquered by the Seljuk Dynasty, the history of Turkey includes the medieval history of the Seljuk Empire, the medieval to modern history of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Republic of Turkey since the 1920s.
Gaziantep Historical Tour
It is one of the important points used by trade caravans and armies wanting to cross the Euphrates River since the Age of Assyrian Trade Colonies. It has been the scene of uninterrupted settlement since the city was founded by Seleucus I, one of Alexander the Great's generals; Most of the ancient city was submerged under the waters of the Birecik Dam, which was completed in 2000. The mosaics adorning the floors of houses and villas from the Roman Empire period in Zeugma were unearthed as a result of rescue excavations that were initiated before the city was flooded by the dam waters. The famous mosaics unearthed during the excavations, covering a total area of 2,500 square meters, are exhibited at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep.
Adıyaman Historical Tour
Mount Nemrut is a 2,150 meter high mountain located in Adıyaman[1] province of Turkey. Nemrut Mountain, located in the Kahta district of Adıyaman, is located in the Taurus mountain range around the Ankar Mountains.[2] Mount Nemrut, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987, was protected by the Mount Nemrut National Park, which was established in 1988. The Nemrut Mountain Culture route starts with the Ancient City of Perre in the center of Adıyaman and then ends at the Karakuş Tumulus in the Kahta district, Cendere Bridge and Canyon, Arsemia Ruins, the summer capital of the Commagene Civilization, Kahta Castle, Devil's Bridge and finally ends at Mount Nemrut.
Antalya Historical Tour
Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival has been organized by the Turkish State Opera and Ballet Directorate with the international participation of opera and ballet companies from various countries since 1994. The festival is held every year in June and July at the two thousand year old Aspendos Ancient Roman Aspendos Theater in Antalya. The theater is known as one of the best preserved ancient theaters in the world, as the building has many original features.
Mersin Historical Tour
Maiden's Castle is a historical castle located in the Erdemli district of Mersin. The distance to Mersin center is approximately 80 km. The tourist town Kızkalesi takes its name from this historical castle. It is approximately 300 meters (980 ft) offshore. The total area of the island is approximately 15,000 square meters (160,000 sq ft), with the castle occupying most of this area.
Isparta Historical Tour
The settlement of the village[3], which has had the same name since its establishment, dates back to 1150-1250. While Kuyucak was within the borders of the Hamitoğulları Principality, in 1374, when Hamidoğlu Kemâleddin Hüseyin Bey sold Beyşehir, Seydişehir, Akşehir, Yalvaç and Karaağacı to the Ottoman ruler Murad I in return for 80 thousand Ottoman gold coins, Kuyucak along with these cities joined the Ottoman territory.[4 ] The municipality status of the village, which was converted into a town in 1992, ended in 2013 after its population fell below 2000 people.
Burdur Historical Tour
Salda Lake is a slightly salty karst[2] lake in the Yeşilova district of Burdur, 4 km away from the district center, surrounded by forest-covered hills, rocky lands and small alluvial plains. It has a closed basin structure within the Lakes Region with no outflow. Its surface area is approximately 44 square kilometers. It is the 3rd deepest lake in Turkey with a depth of up to 184 meters. The hydromagnesite mineral formed in the lake is one of the most beautiful and current examples of "biological mineralization".
Hatay Historical Tour
Hatay Archeology Museum, Hatay Museum or Antakya Archaeological Museum is an art museum where artifacts from the ancient period are exhibited. As of December 28, 2014, it is the museum with the largest mosaic exhibition area in the world.
Aadana Historical Tour
The bridge, which is considered the symbol of Adana, is a Roman period work.[1] It is reported that Taşköprü was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian and was seriously repaired during the time of the Roman Emperor Justinian I. The bridge, which is located on the Seyhan River and originally had 21 eyes, now serves as a 14-eye bridge, with 7 of its eyes remaining underground during the reclamation of the Seyhan River. The bridge, which was half narrower when it was first built, was later widened. It is known that there is a crown gate at both entrances of the bridge, which does not exist now. Taşköprü, which was repaired several times during the Ottoman period, continues to serve today. The bridge is 310 meters long and has a width of 11.40 meters.
Kars Historical Tour
Ani (Armenian: նի, Latin: Abnicum) is a ruin located in the southeast of the city of Kars and along the Arpaçay. Ani, an important settlement center since the Iron Age, first became a part of the lands of the Nairis and Urartians, natives of Anatolia, and then was captured by the Armenians and served as the capital of the Armenian rulers of the Pakraduni Dynasty between 961-1045. It also contains some works of Islamic architecture from the 11th and 12th centuries. Ani, which was included in the World Heritage Tentative List by UNESCO in 2012, was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2016.
Denizli Historical Tour
Pamukkale is a natural location in Denizli province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It includes terraces and travertines of carbonate minerals left over from the City Thermal Springs and flowing waters.
Van Historical Tour
Akdamar Island (also written as Ahtamar or Ağtamar; Armenian: ձղթամար Akhtamar) is the second largest island in Lake Van, located between the Van and Bitlis provinces of Turkey. There is a church dating back to the Armenians on the island, located within the borders of Van's Gevaş district. The total coastline of the island, whose surface area is approximately 163,753 square meters[1], is 3 kilometers. The highest point of the island is 1912 meters above sea level, and there are steep cliffs reaching 80 meters in height at the western ends.
Bursa Historical Tour
Uludağ National Park was declared a National Park in 1961 and taken under protection in an area of 13,024 hectares in the south and southeast of Bursa province.[1] Transportation to the national park can be done by road and cable car. It is possible to reach the valleys and hills within the park thanks to numerous paths on the North and South slopes of the mountain.
Bolu Historical Tour
In the national park, which is located in a very rugged region of the Western Black Sea Region, the lakes formed by landslides, the rich vegetation resembling the "Forest Sea", the trout living in the lakes and the recreational use potential created by these values constitute the main resources. In the area, where the ground structure generally consists of serpentines and volcanic rocks, occasional collapse ground movements and a land structure ready to drift are the main factors that prepare the formation of lakes. Lakes are set lakes where water accumulates behind as a result of sliding masses and valleys blocking the front. Some of these are interconnected with bottom leaks. Eğrikiriş Hill is the highest point in the park area with 1488m, and Kirazçatı is the lowest point with 465m.
Mardin Historical Tour
Deyrüzzaferân Monastery (or Deyrulzafaran Monastery, Assyrian: florflorflorڐ florڰڪڝ ښڢڢڝڐ, Dairo d-Mor Ḥannanyo) is an Assyrian monastery built in the 5th century, 3 km east of Mardin, and one of the important centers of the Assyrians.[1] Mor Hananyo Church (Domed Church), House of Saints (Beth Kadişe), Virgin Mary Church and Sun Temple constitute the important structures of the monastery. There is a historical Syriac Bible and sacred stone inside the monastery, and it is said that the first medical school was established here. Mosaics from the period when it was founded still remain today. One of the most important features of the monastery, which looks like a living history, is that it contains the graves of 52 Assyrian patriarchs.
Şanlı urfa Historical Tour
Harran ancient city. (Harran ruins) is one of the old settlements of the region located within the borders of Harran district of Şanlıurfa province. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.
Bitlis Historical Tour
Lake Nemrut is the second largest crater lake in the world and the largest in Turkey, and is named after the Babylonian ruler Nemrut, who lived in 2100 BC. Nemrut Lake is located in the west of the Lake Van basin, between Tatvan, Ahlat and Güroymak districts of Bitlis province.
Malatya Historical Tour
Arslantepe Mound[note 1] or Melid, 7 km from Malatya. It is an archaeological settlement located in the northeast. It is one of the largest mounds in Turkey.[1] The mound is to the west of the Karakaya Dam Lake on the Euphrates. The mound, which is thirty meters high, was inhabited from the 5th millennium BC until the 11th century AD. The region was used as a Roman village in the 5th and 6th centuries AD and later as a Byzantine necropolis.[2] The residential area has dimensions of 200 x 120 meters.
Ağrı Historical Tour
Mount Ararat (Armenian: ձրարատ, Ararat or Մասիս, Masis; Kurdish: Çiyayê Agirî; during the Seljuk period: Eğri Dağ[2]) is the highest mountain in Turkey, with an altitude of 5,137 meters. Mount Ararat is at the eastern tip of Turkey, 16 kilometers west of Iran and 32 kilometers south of Armenia.
Edirne Historical Tour
Selimiye Mosque, Ottoman Sultan II. It is a complex built by Mimar Sinan during the reign of Selim I and located in Edirne, the previous capital of the Ottoman Empire. Selimiye Mosque, built by Mimar Sinan at the age of 80 and described as "my masterwork"[1], is considered among the most important works of both Mimar Sinan and Ottoman architecture.
Kocaeli Historical Tour
The distance to Izmit is 20 kilometers. According to the census conducted in 2022, its population is 5,964.[1] Maşukiye town has two neighborhoods: Soğuksu and Çınarlı.
İzmir Historical Tour
Ephesus (Hittite: Apaša, [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos) was an ancient Luwian city located on the western coast of Anatolia, three kilometers southwest of the Selçuk district of today's Izmir province. The city maintained its importance during the Ionian and later Roman periods, with the beginning of Greek colonialism in Anatolia. Its foundation dates back to the Neolithic Age, that is, around 6000 BC. It was built by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists in the 10th century BC on the site of the ancient capital of Arzava.
Muğla Historical Tour
Saklıkent National Park, or commonly known as Saklıkent Canyon, is the canyon formed by Karaçay, a branch of Eşen Stream that draws the Antalya-Muğla border. It is within the borders of Seydikemer district of Muğla. A steep and deep canyon was formed on the calcareous land, which can be easily eroded by water, with the help of fault cracks. Its length is 18 km and its height is 200 m. Its narrowest point drops to 2 meters. The flow rate of Karaçay, a branch of Eşen Stream, is 14–17 m³/sec at the Canyon exit.
Aydın Historical Tour
Dilek Peninsula - Büyük Menderes Delta National Park is a national park located at the last point where Dilek Mountain extends to the Aegean Sea within the borders of Aydın province. It has an area of 27,675 hectares. 10,985 hectares of this area belongs to the Dilek Peninsula, which was declared a National Park on 19.05.1966, and 16,690 hectares belongs to the Büyük Menderes Delta, which was declared a National Park in 1994.
Çanakkale Historical Tour
The monuments and arrangements on the Gallipoli Peninsula took their current form with the establishment of the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park in 1970 and the subsequent commencement of the Gallipoli Wars Gallipoli Historical Area Directorate on 19.06.2014. Prior to this, apart from the preparation of the 1916 Şevki Pasha map and a few modest monuments and individual martyrs' cemeteries built during and immediately after the Battles, there was no significant activity in the field of Gallipoli History until the 1940s. The interest, which started in the 1940s with the Nuri Yamut Monument (1943), the Çanakkale Martyrs' Monument project competition (1944) and other initiatives, continued at a slow pace until the 1970s. The declaration of the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park in 1973 allowed developments in activities related to monuments.
Konya Historical Tour
Mevlana Museum is a museum that has been operating since 1926 in the building complex that was formerly Mevlana's dervish lodge in Konya. It is also known as "Mevlana Tomb". The Green Dome, or Mevlana's tomb, was built on four thick columns (elephant feet). Since then, the structure has expanded with various additions at different dates. The fact that some of the Ottoman sultans were from the Mevlevi sect ensured that the Tomb was given special importance and was well protected.
Eskişehir Historical Tour
Eskişehir Contemporary Glass Arts Museum is a museum opened on December 1, 2007 in the Eskişehir Odunpazarı Evleri City Museum complex to exhibit the works of glass artists.
Trabzon Historical Tour
Uzungöl is a landslide barrier lake located in the Trabzon province of Turkey. It is located in Uzungöl District of Çaykara district. It was formed when the rocks falling from the slopes blocked the Haldizen stream. The lake's length was 1,000 m, its width was 500 m, and its area was 500,000 ha, and its deepest point was 15 m.
