For those of an adventurous disposition South-Eastern Turkey is usually the destination of choice. An oblique rectangle with its corners turning on Malatya,…
“Black Spring” town Population: 36,000 Old name:…
Taurus Mountain stopover Population: 32,700 Old name: Claudiopolis For the time being, Mut, a small…
Mountainside monastery Signposted as a church two km east of the main Karaman-Mut road, Alahan is a particularly awe-inspiring Byzantine archaeological site. It…
Capital of the Karamanoğlu Emirate Population: 175,400 Old name: Laranda Market day: Wednesday Right in the heart…
Last resting place of the Mevlana Population: 1,250,000 Old names: İconium, Darulmülk, Rum,…
Heart of Turkey’s rice-growing country Population: 30,500 Old name: Pimolisa North of Çorum along…
Forgotten slice of olde-worlde Anatolia Population: 17,600 Old names: İskila (Hittite), Blocium, Direklibel With time on…
Hittite base camp Population: 1,500 Pretty little Boğazköy (also known…
Lesser known Hittite site In 2003 archaeologists started digging in the farmland three km outside the village of Ortaköy, southeast of Çorum, in…