Ayas (Aegaea) Ruins
Ayas in Adana, ancient Aegeae: a Cilician harbour town with a medieval castle on the sea…
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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.
Ayazini Ruins
Ayazini is a village in Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey, which is famous…
Aydıntepe Underground City
Aydıntepe Underground City in Bayburt: rock-cut galleries and vaulted rooms beneath a town, probably Roman in…
Ayn Zeliha Lake
Ayn Zeliha Lake in Şanlıurfa: the sacred fish pool named after Nimrod’s daughter Zeliha, with tea…
Ayvalık
Ayvalık guide: stone houses and olive-oil factories, the Taksiyarhis Church museum, Şeytan Sofrası, the islands, ferries…
Balıkesir
Balıkesir travel guide: Ayvalık and Cunda Island, Mount Ida’s national park, Antandros, Kuşcenneti bird sanctuary, thermal…
Balıklıgöl
Balıklıgöl in Şanlıurfa: the Pool of Abraham with its sacred carp, Ayyubid and Ottoman mosques and…
Bandırma Ship Museum
Bandırma Ship Museum in Samsun: the replica of the steamer that brought Mustafa Kemal to Samsun…
Bartın
Bartın travel guide: Amasra's harbours and castle, the Roman Kuşkayası monument, Güzelcehisar basalt columns, wooden houses,…
Batman
Batman travel guide: Hasankeyf after the Ilısu Dam, the relocated Zeynel Bey Tomb, the Batman Museum,…
Battalgazi (Eski Malatya)
Battalgazi (Eski Malatya), old Melitene: the Seljuk Great Mosque of 1224, a 1637 caravanserai, Roman walls,…
Bayburt Castle
Bayburt Castle: walls over 2 km long on a ridge above the Çoruh, fortified by Justinian,…
Bayburt
Bayburt travel guide: the castle above the Çoruh, the Baksı Museum, Aydıntepe underground city, Dede Korkut,…
Beşikli Cave
Beşikli Cave at Çevlik, Samandağ: the largest rock-cut tomb of Seleucia Pieria, its 12 burials and…
Beyoglu District
Beyoğlu, Istanbul's district north of the Golden Horn: İstiklal Avenue, Taksim, Galata and Cihangir, and the…
Bilecik
Bilecik travel guide: Söğüt and Ertuğrul Gazi’s tomb, Sheikh Edebali’s tomb, Ottoman houses, highland pastures, Kınık…
Binbirkilise
Binbirkilise, the Thousand and One Churches on Karadağ near Karaman: Byzantine basilicas at Madenşehir and Değle,…
Bithynia
Bithynia, the ancient kingdom of north-west Anatolia: Nicomedia, Nicaea and Prusa (Bursa), and the Roman province…
Bitlis Castle
Bitlis Castle above the old Kalealtı bazaar, with the Ulu Cami, Şerefiye külliye and İhlasiye Madrasa…
Bitlis
Bitlis travel guide: Ahlat’s Seljuk tombstones and kümbets, the Nemrut crater lake, Bitlis castle and madrasas,…
Blaundos
Blaundos ancient city near Ulubey, Uşak: a Hellenistic and Roman town on a canyon promontory with…
Bolu
Bolu travel guide: Lake Abant, Yedigöller National Park, Gölcük, Ottoman Mudurnu, skiing at Kartalkaya, hot springs,…
Cacabey Madrasa
Cacabey Madrasa in Kırşehir: the 1272 Seljuk school of astronomy with its observation well, 21-metre tower…
Çapanoğlu Mosque
Çapanoğlu Mosque in Yozgat: built in 1779 and 1795 by the Çapanoğlu lords, with a 15…
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