Turkey Tourism

MARDİN Area: 12.760 km² Population: 1.154.418 (1990) Traffic Code: 47 The province of Mardin, is a poetic city of Southeast Anatolia Region reflecting the impression as if the time had stopped with its present architectural, ethnographic, archeological, historic and visual merits. The province of Mardin hosts mosques, mausoleums, churches, monasteries and similar religious creations parallel [...]

Before the Byzantine Empire Excavations conducted at Yarımburgaz cave have uncovered evidence of human culture in the region of Küçükçekmece Lake. Collective inhabitation of Istanbul, which would later become one of the most crowded cities in the world, dates back to the Sixth Millennium B.C.E. These societies inhabited caves on both the European and Anatolian [...]

Antalya, Turkey, the main resort in the Mediterranean region (ancient Pamphylia), is an attractive city with shady avenues, a marina, award-winning Mediterranean. Kaleici in the picturesque old town, narrow streets and old wooden houses fall into the ancient walls. Lately, many foreigners have bought (and continue to buy) the property and around Antalya vacation or [...]

Two meters under the narrow streets of Bodrum lies 5000 years of history. A few monuments attest to this history: the castle, the Roman Theatre, the Gate and the Mausoleum Myndus. The city was captured by the Lydians in the first half of the 6th century BC and then by the Persians in 546 BC [...]