| Title | : | Central Anatolia - updated chapter from Blue Guide Turkey |
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| Author | : | Paola Pugsley |
| Release | : | 2016-02-18 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Travel in Asia, Books, Travel & Adventure |
| Size | : | 4507276 |
| A land on the great trade routes between east and west, sprinkled with the remains of old caravanserais, and including Cappadocia with its churches and underground 'cities'; the capital Ankara and its Museum of Anatolian Civilizations; Gordion, where Alexander unloosed the famous knot; Konya, with its tomb of the great Mevlana Rumi dervish; and the vast central plateau with its lakes and its Hittite, Hellenistic and Roman remains: ancient Pisidia (with Sagalassos), ancient Phrygia (the realm of King Midas) and the land of the Hittites (with Hattusa). |
