| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
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The entrance to the Archeological Museum has a Hittite carving.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
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Hittite writing.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
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13th century BCE Hittite carving.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
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Hittite artefacts.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
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Wooden icon from the Byzantine era.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
|
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The suburbs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
|
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Street near the edge of the city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Kayseri
|
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The 3916m high Mount Erciyes near Kayseri is an extinct volcano.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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Ankara, the capital of Turkey, is a city of hills in central Anatolia.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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Statue of Ataturk who moved the capital to Ankara from Istanbul.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Ottoman style buildings in the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Pastel coloured house and minaret.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Steps.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Children.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Typical street scene.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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The minaret of the Aslanhane Mosque.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Ottoman houses with wooden balconies.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Archway.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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The roofs over the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Bastions.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Precarious looking house.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Street with shops.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
District : Old City
|
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Traditional houses.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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The Haji Bayram Mosque was built over a Byzantine church. The church was built on the site of a Phrygian temple.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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A circumcission ceremony.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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Byzantine baths.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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Byzantine ruins.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Column of Julius
|
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The 4th century Column of Julius topped by a stork's nest.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Column of Julius
|
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The column was built for a Byzantine Emperor. The inscription is Greek.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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Turkey's first parliament building.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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The suburbs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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The Ethnographic Museum.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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The History Museum.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Genclik Park
|
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Genclik Park (Youth Park) was included in the modern city at the insistance of Ataturk.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Genclik Park
|
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The park is in the city centre and is dominated by a lake.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Genclik Park
|
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The park is popular.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
|
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The modern city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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The Tomb of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), the founder of modern Turkey.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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Ataturk was the country's first president.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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View from the tomb over the city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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Painted panels.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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Statues and children.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Tomb of Ataturk
|
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Visitors.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The Citadel dominates the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The Ciradel was founded in the 8th century BCE by the Phrygians.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The buildings were added to by Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The structure was rebuilt in 278 BCE by the Galatians.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The modern centre of Ankara.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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View from the Citadel over the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The battlements.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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Red roofs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Citadel
|
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The city is very hilly.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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The museum is in a restored bedestan (covered bazaar).
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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Hittite animal.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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Phrygian carving.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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Assyrian bird shaped ceramic.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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Persian influenced carvings.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Ankara
Site / Event : Museum of Anatolian Civilisations
|
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Carved slab.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Spectacular Hattusas is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The ancient city was discovered in 1812.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Hattusas was the capital of the Hittite Empire from around 1900 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The Hittites were an Indo-European people who fought the Greeks at Troy.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The main gateway to the Hittite capital.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The spectacular city walls.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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In places, the walls are 50m thick and 20m high.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The Hittite Empire stretched from the Black Sea to Palestine.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The city defences included tunnels.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The Hittites are mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible and Egyptian writing.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Rocky landscape.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The city is spread over a large area. In 1360 BCE the Hittites took Syria from Egypt and clashed with Ramases II in 1316 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Temple of the Storm
|
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The entrance to the Temple of the Storm.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Temple of the Storm
|
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View of the temple.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Temple of the Storm
|
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The temple dates from the 1300s BCE.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Hilly landscape with the ever-present geese.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The Hittite Empire collapsed around 1200 BCE after invasions from Greeks and Phrygians.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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The setting of the ancient city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Many artefacts were fouind at the site and they are now in Ankara.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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An oasis.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
|
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Trees in an oasis in the arid landscape.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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The entrance portal to the religious shrine of Yazilikaya.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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The shrine is reached via a steep stairway in the rock face.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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Detail from the Hittite shrine.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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The shrine dates from 1200 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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Detail of a relief figure of a Hittite deity.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
Site / Event : Yazilikaya
|
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Landscape around Yazilikaya.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
District : Bogaskale
|
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View of the village of Bogaskale.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
District : Bogaskale
|
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The small village is at the edge of the ancient city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
District : Bogaskale
|
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Farm house.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Hattusas
District : Bogaskale
|
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A group of girls.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Amasaya is a city near the Black Sea built on the sides of a river gorge.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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The city of Amasaya rises up a steep gorge.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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The dramatic rocky setting of the city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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The city was founded by the Hittites then became a Pontic Greek city before becoming Roman.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Pontic tombs dating from 300 BCE in the rocks above the city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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The Pontic kings are buried in the rock tombs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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View over the centre of Amasaya and the Yesilirmak River.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Ottoman houses and Pontic tombs by the river.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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View of the town.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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The banks of the Yesilirmak River.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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A group of children.
|
1986 |
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