| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Family group.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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View over the town.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Ottoman houses by the river.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Ottoman houses and a bridge over the river.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
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Hilafel Gazi Tomb dates from 1146.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Gokmedresse Mosque
|
 |
The Gokmedresse Mosque and school date from 1276.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Gokmedresse Mosque
|
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View from the roof of the mosque.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Gokmedresse Mosque
|
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Students from the school.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Gokmedresse Mosque
|
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Three boys on the mosque roof.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Byzantine incense burner.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Gold statue of a Hittite god.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
|
 |
Attaturk statue at the edge of the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
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The narrow streets of the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Sultan Beyazit Mosque
|
 |
The Sultan Beyazit Mosque is the largest in the old city.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Sultan Beyazit Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1486.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Sultan Beyazit Mosque
|
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The mosque is overlooked by Pontic tombs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Sultan Beyazit Mosque
|
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Conical roof and minaret.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
 |
Street scene.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
 |
Mosque by the cliffs.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Bimarhane School
|
 |
The Bimarhane was originally a mental hostital.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Bimarhane School
|
 |
The building dates from 1309.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
 |
The houses rise up the hillside.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
 |
Hilly street with steps.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Beyazit Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The Beyazit Pasha Mosque is in Bursa style.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Beyazit Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1419.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Kapiagasi Medresse
|
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The Kapiagasi is a school.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Kapiagasi Medresse
|
 |
The school is octagonal.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
Site / Event : Kapiagasi Medresse
|
 |
The school was built in 1488.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
 |
Old man.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Amasaya
District : Old City
|
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The market.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
 |
Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
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Trabzon is set around a gorge.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
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The old city is on a hillside.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
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Trabzon was founded in 700 BCE by Arcadians. It later became a Pontic Greek kingdom.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
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Trabzon fell to Rome in 88 BCE and became Byzantine in 1204.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
 |
The Ottomans took the city in 1461.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
|
 |
Friday prayer at the 16th century Gulbahar Mosque.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Aghia Sophia Church
|
 |
Aghia Sophia is a 13th century Greek church that was later turned into a mosque.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Aghia Sophia Church
|
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Stone carvings over the entrance.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Aghia Sophia Church
|
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Fresco in the church.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Aghia Sophia Church
|
 |
Religious fresco.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Aghia Sophia Church
|
 |
Bell tower and minaret.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Attaturk's Villa
|
 |
Attaturk's summer villa is in Crimean style and overlooks the Black Sea.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Attaturk's Villa
|
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The grounds of the villa.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Attaturk's Villa
|
 |
Chandelier.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
Site / Event : Attaturk's Villa
|
 |
View from the villa.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
|
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The mountainous Sumela district.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
|
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The river valley.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
|
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The region is fertile, growing tea, rice and cherries.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
|
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Misty alpine mountains.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
A steep gorge in Sumela is the setting of Sumela Monastery.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
Visitors.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
Waterfall.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
The 6th century Byzantine monastery of Sumela is built on a cliff near Trabzon. It remained in use until 1923.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
Structures on the cliff face.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
The monastery is 250m above the floor of the gorge.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
The ruins of the Monastery.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
The monastery was abandoned in 1923.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
Frescos on the walls.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
The setting is spectacular.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
View from the monastery.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Trabzon
District : Sumela
Site / Event : Sumela Monastery
|
 |
View of the river 250m below the monastery.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
|
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Erzurum is dominated by a 5th century castle, now used as a football pitch.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Yakutiye Mosque
|
 |
The octagonal Yakutiye Mosque dates from 1310.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Yakutiye Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was built by the Mongols.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Cifte Minareli Medresi
|
 |
The Cifti Minareli Medresi is a mosque and school.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Cifte Minareli Medresi
|
 |
The 1253 building has an elaborate gateway.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Cifte Minareli Medresi
|
 |
The minarets are decorated with tiles.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Erzurum
Site / Event : Cifte Minareli Medresi
|
 |
Dramatic stone carvings.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
View of Mount Ararat (5165m) whose name comes from the Urartu, the original inhabitants.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Christians believe that Mount Ararat is the traditional resting place of Noah's Ark.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Dogubeyazit is a mainly Kurdish town overlooked by Mount Ararat.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Dogubeyazit is a frontier town close to the border with Iran.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Kurdish farmers with Mount Ararat in the background.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Animal market.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Mud brick houses.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Children at their house.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
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The houses are simple single storey dwellings.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Small market.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
The region has a severe climate with hot summers and freezing winters.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Dusty street.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Typical houes.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
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Walled oasis near the town.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
 |
Landcsape with isolated trees.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
|
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Landscape near the border with Iran.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The Isak Pasa Serai is set on a hill less than 30km from the border with Iran.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The castle - fortress - palace was constructed between 1685 and 1784 by a Kurdish chief.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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Gold plated doors which hang on the portal were taken by Russia to Moscow in 1917.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The Complex contains a mosque.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The striped minaret.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The architecture is a blend of Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman, Georgian, Armenian and Persian styles.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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Carved niches.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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The stonework is fine.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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Octagonal tomb.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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Carved entrance.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
Carving of a lion.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
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The palace courtyard.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
The ruined fortress.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
City / Town : Dogubeyazit
Site / Event : Isak Pasa Serai
|
 |
Small settlement and mosque at 1520m from Isak Pasa Serai.
|
1986 |
| Turkey |
Region : Lake Van
|
 |
Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey. Becuase it has no outlet the waters are slightly alkaline.
|
1986 |
were added from 1 February 2025.