Yilan Castle
Yılan Castle, also known as Yılanlı Kale or Yılanlı Kalesi, is a historical fortress located in…
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Historical Places
Ninety-two historical places across Turkey, the broadest category in this guide. It covers everything built and left behind: ruins, mosques, churches, castles, bridges, caravanserais and burial sites. If you know roughly where you are going but not what is nearby worth seeing, start here.
This category lists 92 places in Türkiye on istambul.com, including Yilan Castle, Yeni Kale, The Tomb Of Ahmedi Hani, Tas Kopru, Synnada Ancient City, Sultanhani Caravanserai, Sandıklı Castle and Perre Ancient City.
Yörük Village
Yörük Village near Safranbolu: a protected Turkmen village of whitewashed Ottoman houses, the old laundry house…
Yozgat
Yozgat travel guide: Türkiye’s first national park, the Iron Age city of Kerkenes, Çapanoğlu Mosque, Roman…
Yunus Emre Mosque and Tomb
The Yunus Emre Mosque and Tomb in Karaman: a Karamanid mosque with the cenotaphs of the…
Yürüyen Köşk
Yürüyen Köşk in Yalova: the house Atatürk had moved 4.80 m on rails in 1930 rather…
Zerzevan Castle
Zerzevan Castle near Çınar, Diyarbakır: a 4th-century Roman frontier garrison with an underground Mithraeum, church and…
Zeugma Mosaic Museum
Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep: the Gypsy Girl, Dionysos and Ariadne and whole Roman villa floors…
Zeynel Bey Tomb
Zeynel Bey Tomb: the 15th-century Akkoyunlu tomb with turquoise tile bands, moved from Hasankeyf to the…
Zilkale
Zilkale (Zil Castle) above the Fırtına in Çamlıhemşin, Rize: a late medieval garrison castle on a…
Zincirli Bedesten
Zincirli Bedesten in Gaziantep: an L-shaped Ottoman market of 1718, once the meat hall, reopened in…
Zonguldak
Zonguldak travel guide: Gökgöl Cave, the Cehennemağzı Caves of Herakles in Ereğli, ancient Tios, the Mining…
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