Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği: the 1228–29 UNESCO-listed complex in Sivas, its carved portals, history,…
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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.
Great Mosque of Diyarbakır
Great Mosque of Diyarbakır: the Seljuk-era Ulu Cami with reused Roman columns, the Mesudiye Madrasa, its…
Great Mosque of Siirt
Great Mosque of Siirt (Ulu Cami): the Seljuk-era mosque repaired in 1129, its turquoise-tiled minaret, original…
Gümüşhane
Gümüşhane travel guide: Karaca Cave, the Santa ruins, Roman Satala, Artabel lakes, Zigana, pestil and köme,…
Gümüşler Monastery
Gümüşler Monastery near Niğde: a rock-cut Byzantine monastery with a 14 m courtyard, 11th–12th-century frescoes, an…
Habib-i Neccar Mosque
Habib-i Neccar Mosque in Antakya: its legend, history, destruction in the 2023 earthquake and reconstruction from…
Hadrianopolis
Hadrianopolis near Eskipazar, Karabük: Roman and Byzantine baths, churches and mosaics of the four rivers of…
Hagia Sophia of Trabzon
Hagia Sophia in Trabzon: the 13th-century church of the Empire of Trebizond, its frescoes, carved porches…
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia, the 6th-century Byzantine cathedral that became a mosque: its history, the upper gallery visitor…
Hakkari
Hakkari travel guide: Cilo-Sat glaciers and Reşko peak, the Zap valley, Meydan Madrasa, Berçelan plateau, flights…
Halfeti
Halfeti on the Euphrates: the half-submerged stone town, boat trips to Savaşan and Rumkale, the dark…
Halicarnassus
Halicarnassus, ancient Bodrum: the Mausoleum of Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,…
Halil-ür Rahman Mosque
Halil-ür Rahman Mosque at Balıklıgöl, Şanlıurfa: Ayyubid mosque of 1211 on a church site of 504,…
Harbiye (Daphne)
Harbiye, ancient Daphne near Antakya: the waterfalls of Daphne’s tears, the Apollo myth, Roman villa mosaics,…
Harput Castle
Harput Castle, the Milk Castle above Elazığ: Urartian origins, Artuqid and Akkoyunlu repairs, the crusader prisoners…
Harput Great Mosque
Harput Great Mosque (Ulu Cami), built in 1156 by the Artuqid Fahrettin Karaaslan, famous for its…
Harput
Harput, the old fortress town above Elazığ: castle, Great Mosque with leaning minaret, Sara Hatun Mosque,…
Harran
Harran near Şanlıurfa: conical mudbrick beehive houses, the 8th-century Great Mosque, a brick castle and the…
Hasandede Mosque and Tombs
Hasandede in Kırıkkale: the 1605 mosque and 17th-century tombs of the dervish Hasandede and his family,…
Hasankeyf
Hasankeyf today: the medieval Tigris town flooded by the Ilısu Dam in 2020, the relocated Zeynel…
Hatay Archaeology Museum
Hatay Archaeology Museum in Antakya: its Antioch and Daphne mosaics, the Antakya Sarcophagus, the Suppiluliuma statue…
Hatay
Hatay travel guide: Antakya (Antioch) after the 2023 earthquake, St Peter’s cave church, Titus Tunnel, Harbiye,…
Hattusa
Hattusa, the Hittite capital near Boğazkale in Çorum: the Lion Gate, the Great Temple and the…
Hatuniye Madrasa
Hatuniye Madrasa in Karaman: built in 1382 by Nefise Sultan, daughter of Murad I, with a…
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