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Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Eskişehir
Sites
Archaeological Sites: 165
Urban Sites: 1
Natural Sites: 10
Historical Sites: -
Other Sites
Archaeological and Natural Sites: 20
Archaeological and Historical Sites: 1
Historical and Urban Sites: 1
Archaeological and Urban: 1
Total: 199 Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural Heritages: 473
TOTAL: 672
Period of Cüneyd Bey in İzmir
Cüneyd Bey, the grandson of the founder of the Aydınoğlu Dynasty, is an interesting figure of the respective period. Following the death of his brother and governor of İzmir, Musa Bey in 1403, Cüneyd Bey became engaged in a power struggle for the Princedom with his opponent Umur II. His [...]
Culture and Art in İzmir
We know that the human being which is a social creature has established different kinds of settlements in different regions of the world since time immemorial. Arguably, the most important of these are the cities.
The subject of the characteristics that are necessary for a settlement to be considered a city is [...]
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Hatay
Sites
Archaeological Sites: 113
Urban Sites: 1
Natural Sites: 4
Historical Sites: 1
Other Sites
Archaeological and Natural Sites: 1
Historical and Natural Sites: 1
Total: 121 Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural Heritages: 447
TOTAL: 568
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Isparta
Sites
Archaeological Sites: 79
Urban Sites: 1
Natural Sites: 4
Historical Sites: 1
Total: 85
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Smyrna in Ancient Times
Our knowledge of Smyrna is based on the fables of some ancient writers rather than on scientific data. For example in one of these stories, it is claimed that the city was founded by Tantalos, the mythic king of Phrygia, whereas in another this area is claimed to be inhabited by Lelegs. [...]
İzmir in the 17th Century
Sources related to İzmir give us more information compared to the previous century. Primarily, the migration of merchants from the isle of Chios (Sakız) and from other locations, as well as the transfer of the French, English, Venetian and Dutch consulates to İzmir up to 1621 point out the growing importance [...]
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Hakkari
Sites
Archaeological Sites: 2
Urban Sites: -
Natural Sites: -
Historical Sites: -
Total: 2
Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural
Heritages: 22
TOTAL: 24
İzmir in the 18th Century
In this century İzmir became the marketplace with the most potential among the harbours and trade centres of the East Mediterranean. İzmir became a place of competition between the mercantilist States of Europe, such as England, France and Holland and a great market where the raw materials of the east were [...]
İzmir in the XXth Century (Till 1923)
Apparently because of its geography, İzmir remained one of the few cities which survived the First World War with few incidents, although the Ottoman Empire suffered heavily under its effects. Contrary to the battles at Gallipoli and Çanakkale that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the [...]
Ancient Remains in the Neighbourhood of Smyrna Thermal Springs of Agamemnon
The thermal spring containing sulphur, 10 km west of İzmir, was known even in very early times. According to legend Greeks, coming to Anatolia under the leadership of Agamemnon had lost another war with a tribe near Pergamon after the fall of Troy, tried to [...]