History and Culture of Zonguldak
Zonguldak is a city built on coal, and its history is unlike any other on the Black Sea.
History and Culture of Tokat
Tokat has been a crossroads for most of its history, a place where the routes between the Black Sea, central Anatolia, and the east have always met.
History and Culture of Mugla
Mugla has a way of being overlooked by history books even though it has been lived in for thousands of years.
History and Culture of Afyonkarahisar
Afyonkarahisar is a city whose name is a history lesson.
History and Culture of Ordu
Ordu looks like a young city, its waterfront rebuilt and its hills covered in modern houses, but the coast it stands on has been traveled, traded and settled for millennia.
History and Culture of Elazig
Elazig is a young city with an ancient heart.
History and Culture of Aydin
Aydin is a province that history never quite left alone.
History and Culture of Tekirdag
Tekirdağ looks like a quiet provincial city, but its history connects it to some of the grandest stories of the eastern Mediterranean.
History and Culture of Usak
Uşak looks like an unremarkable provincial city, but its history is anything but.
History and Culture of Mardin
Mardin is more than a beautiful town: it is a living archive of the civilizations that have passed through southeastern Anatolia.
History and Culture of Kahramanmaras
Kahramanmaraş is a city whose history is written into its name: kahraman, heroic, was added in 1973 to honor the city’s resistance during the Turkish War of Independence.
History and Culture of Balikesir
Balıkesir is a province where history is written in the landscape: a Persian satrapy on a lake shore, Byzantine villages on the mountain, Ottoman market towns on the plains, and the footprints of the War of…
