Archive for the 'Trabzon' Category

Antique Cities

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

Home to the world’s earliest settlements and numerous civilizations ranging from the tiniest of communities to the greatest of empires, Anatolia invites you to discover its ancient cities. Aphrodisias With a history dating back to 5000 BC, the ancient city of Aphrodisias was established during the Greek and Roman times and is one of the […]

Uzungöl

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

Uzungöl Uzungöl: Located within the province of Trabzon, one of the most beautiful cities of Eastern Black Sea Region, Uzungöl, with its lush green nature and calm water, peacefully lies within a valley.   Uzungöl is the lake that also names the village on its coast. Located in one of the outermost regions, Uzungöl is […]

Sümela Monastery

Monday, July 13th, 2015

Sümela Monastery İn Turkish: Sümela Manastırı; Panagia Soumela, “Virgin Mary of Soumela” in Greek) is a spectacular rock-hewn monastery perched dramatically on the narrow ledge of a steep cliff in the forests south of Trabzon. It was built in the fourth century, just before the Roman Empire split into east and west, by two Athenian priests, Barnabas […]

Museums in Turkey

Monday, January 28th, 2013

Turkey, which honors the many civilizations, has a value of museums and ruins. Do not forget that the Hittites, movement, Urartians in Anatolia and lived the principles and applications made under the Hellenistic civilization western Anatolia. Turkey is the country where the Byzantines, the legacy of this culture. Finally, Turkey, the rule about the millennium […]

Sumela Monastery Trabzon Turkey

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Trabzon is a nice city of Turkey which has been located in coast of East Black Sea Region of Turkey. The city had been called as “Trabezos” in 750 B.C. It has been taken under control sequentially by Meds, Persians, Pontus Empire, Romans and Byzantines. In the power period of Byzantines, the city had been […]