History and Culture of Sivas
Sivas is one of the most historically layered cities in Turkey, a place where Seljuk scholarship, Ottoman provincial life, and the birth of the modern republic all left their mark within a few hundred meters of…
History and Culture of Malatya
Malatya is one of those places where history is not in a museum; it is in the ground under your feet.
History and Culture of Sanliurfa
Sanliurfa is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and its history reads like a condensed version of human civilization itself.
History and Culture of Denizli
Denizli is a region where history sits close to the surface.
History and Culture of Samsun
Samsun is a city whose history is easy to summarize and impossible to flatten into a single story.
History and Culture of Diyarbakir
Diyarbakir is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a settlement on the banks of the Tigris that has been a capital, a fortress, and a crossroads for six thousand years.
History and Culture of Eskisehir
Eskisehir, whose name means old city, has been a place of settlement for thousands of years, yet it wears its history lightly.
History and Culture of Kayseri
Kayseri is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of Anatolia, and its story reads like a condensed history of Turkey itself.
History and Culture of Mersin
Mersin’s history is the history of the eastern Mediterranean in miniature.
History and Culture of Konya
Konya is a city where history is not a museum exhibit but a living presence.
History and Culture of Gaziantep
Gaziantep has been a city for thousands of years, and its history is written across the landscape: in the mound of Dülük, the mosaics of Zeugma, the stone of the castle, and the copper of the bazaar.
History and Culture of Adana
Adana is the ancient city of the south — the city of the plain that has been inhabited for the millennia, from the ancient kingdoms through the Roman and the Ottoman ages to the modern provincial capital.
