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Amasya Governorship

Ancient Cities

Çagirkan Castle Tumulus: It is on Kirşehir - Kaman road, in Çağırkan borough, 9 km. away from Kaman province. It is settled from 3000 B. C. till Islamic Period.

Center Kalehöyük: Kalehöyük, which is at the city center, had been settled since B. C. periods till today.

Hashöyük: During the excavations, performed at Hashöyük, which is 35 km. away from city center, Hittite Period belonging ruins are found.

Mucur Underground City: The underground city at Mucur province center, is founded in 3rd and 4th centuries A. D. There are 42 chambers, dungeons, stables, temples, secret roads and gates and ventilation shafts within this city, which is 7 - 8 m. deep from ground.

Dulkadirli Inli Murat Underground City: It is in Dulkadirli Inli Murat village, which is 58 km. away from city center. It is thought that this city is built in 4th and 5th centuries A. D. It is composed of three main spaces and 10 chambers, which are opening to these spaces.
Mosque, Mausoleum and Churches

Cacabey (Theology School) Mosque: The theology school, is the city center, which was constructed in 1271 - 1272, and currently used as a mosque. It is served as an astronomy institute during Seljukian Period. Its minaret, which is separate from the structure, is also used as watching tower.
Derefakili Churches: These structures, which are some of the first churches of Christianity, are at the Derefakili village of Akçakent province.

Ahi Evran Mosque and Mausoleum: The mosque and mausoleum, is constructed in the name of Ahi Evran, who was the founder of the Ahilik Organization, in 1482. The structure is in the city center. You can climb to the mausoleum by a ladder inside the mosque.

Lala (Lale) Mosque: It is in the city center, and just beside to the Melik Gazi Vault. Architectural style of the mosque is remembering you that it is constructed as a caravansary and a mint.

Melik Gazi Vault: It is thought that the vault, which is at south east of city center, is constructed during the 13th century.
Other impressive vaults are Kalender Baba Vault and Fatma Hatun Vault.

Aşikpaşa Mausoleum, Cacabey Mausoleum, Süleyman Türkmani Mausoleum, Muhterem Hatun Mausoleum, Yunus Emre Mausoleum are the valuable pieces of arts to see within the region.

Religion Tourism

KIRŞEHİR

Cacabey (Medresesi) Mosque (Center): The theology school , which is at the city center, was constructed in 1271-1272 and currently used as a mosque.
It served as a astronomy institute during Seljuk period.It is minaret, which is seperate from the structure , was also used as an watch tower.

Ahi Evran Mosque and Mausoleum (Center): The mosque and mauso1eum , which was constructed in the name of Ahi Ervan, who was the founder of Ahilik Organization, in 1482, is at the city center.

One can climb the mausoleum by a ladder inside the mosque.

Lala Mosque (Lale Mosque-Center): It is at the city center and adjacent to Melik Gazi Vault.The architectural style of the mosque resemble to that of caravanserai and a mint.

Melik Gazi Vault (Center): In the southeast of the city center, the vault is thought to have been built in 13th century.

Derefakılı Churches (Akçakent): Among the first Christian churches to have been built, these churches are located at Derefakılı Village,Akçakent district.

Istanbul - Göknarlik Nature Reserve

Location: The park is 2km outside Tokat, a small village in the Beykoz district of Istanbul, northeast of the city.

Transportation: There is public transport available from Istanbul.

Highlights: The area has a unique ecosystem which is in danger of vanishing, and has the only fir tree grove growing naturally in Istanbul. Other tree species include chestnut, lime, horn-beam and hazelnut.

Regional Socio-Economic Life In The Pre-Seljuk And Ottoman Era

CULTUREL DETAILS OF NEVŞEHİR

Regional Socio-Economic Life In The Pre-Seljuk And Ottoman Era

The Persians preserved the local autonomy, collected taxes in a fairly just fashion and defended it with the military units they conscripted.It soon became apparent that the victory of Alexander’s victory remained superfi cial. The Diadokhos dynasty took the place of the dynasty that had existed prior to the Persian invasion (the generals who set up autonomous rule and partitioned the empire following the death of Alexander).The shortage of easily worked fertile lands and, especially, the sparse population prevented the selection of agricultural cultivation as the chief source of wealth.Hence, a foundation of urban settlements in conjunction with commerce gained importance in Cappadocia, particularly in the Classical period.In these early periods,commerce constituted the final hope of those who had no land. In the final analysis, such an arrangement rested on the more or less autonomous rural communities, organized by tribes, who participated in the system as producer, consumer and the actual defender of the transit roads, but who were never fully integrated.

Commerce unsupported by products from the land led to an economic crisis in Cappadocia as well as the entire state. The depression which lasted until Diocletian ascended the throne in 284 suddenly worsened  after Antonin RLER?? The empire in this period-that is, the concept of the centralization-began to dissolve and break away from the center. The consequent drastic decline in the volume of money which led to the closing of the estates of the great landowners and, at the same time, the diminishment in slave labor power (the exhaustion of slave reproduction, who had been obtained in the wars of expansion; and the financial impossibility of securing new ones) stimulated the drive to organize a new land system. Land was divided between two classes. The nobles (indominicatum), which included a sizeable portion of workable land, together with housing in villas, repre  sented one landholder; the other was the villagers who were called “free” (coloni) and who had farms (manses). One-tenth of the produce of the colon was given to the landlord. In addition, they expended a great proportion of their time and labor on the lord’s land.

İn the following phases, agricultural production relation became even more burdensome with the changes in con ditions. The position of the colon  peasant was unchanging and hereditary and compulsory.His being bound to the land was both a right and a compulsion; if he were to flee, his legal rights would be identical to those of a slave and when caught would be severely punished.

Earlier, the people had tended to flee the land, because the conditions under which they lived were harsh and they tried to escape from them.The villagers were leaving the lands; the craftsmen were deserting their occupa- tions; the Decurion (the local Roman administrator) was avoiding his duties on the municipal council.The officials could find only one solution for this disaster. To clamp down on everyone and close the routes of escape.The emperors in order to keep the cadres of the civilization from collapsing and disappearing was to sentence the populace to the equivalent of a life sentence of hard labor.Difficult though it was, in the end, a stability was obtained.

In the Byzantine era, starting from the reign of Phocos till that of Basil II, a policy of expansion was pursued, which reached a climax in the reign of Basil II. A series of wars were conducted that in the short run brought victory but which, in the long run, led to destruction. And feudalism was at its height. Though the great feudal lords had much damage inflicted on them by the restrictive legislation of the emperors in the tenth century, in they end, they came out on top.  In the period following the death of the Great Basileos, the great estates rapidly expanded; by contrast, the small property owners who were of military and peasant origins began to collapse.  The peasants, who were bound to the land were being crushed by taxes, duties and forced labor, turned to the agesold response of fleeing the land, even without knowing where to turn. Regardless of how restrictive the forms of bondage to the land were made the numbers of those fleeing from the countryside was equally increasing.  Small property owners were selling their lands to the elite. In fact, an entire village population even might leave all ,their property behind and face a situation which was heartbreaking. Later this the state would take control of this property and land for the benefit of a few monasteries.  Villagers in a position where they could no longer pay their taxes-small property owners or renters-often had no other option than to flee. This was the first thing that came to mind, and though it was easy, it proved but a temporary solution. We believe that only a few of them settled in towns; otherwise, they turned to banditry.

Cappadocia represented a world sought by the Christian clergy, one which was difficult to attain; it satisfied their desires and expectations for the next world. The special nature of this place presented to the Christian masses a land that was lost to the world. The special position of Cappadocia began to represent the utopia that was sought in this world.  It was the last natural world that could be reached on the journey of belief which led directly to god-a fragment of another planet. G. de Jerphanion stated that “If a silhouette of a city on the Moon could be glimpsed, there is no question but that it would look like Ürgüp.” The next stage was to believe it that it conformed to the appearance of the next world. That is why they devoted themselves to withdraw from the world in this special land. In particular, monks journeying from other places believed that they had come to the end of the way and, after having carved out a shelf in a fairy chimney for themselves, they spent the remainder of their life in this silent and imaginary dream-like nature and retreat.  In this other world, they expended their efforts to create a human community and establish human relations in the way god would have wished and facilitate religious ties between human beings and god.

This dreamlike geography of Cappadocia was one of the most important factors in the creation of a mystic thought: Though at first glance, it bears a harsh appearance and seems hostile to humankind and a place difficult to live-in the face of danger, the need to find refuge, save property and life and withdraw from the face of the earth-it offers the possibility of easy seclusion underground. Thus, we see that people embraced the region with a curious passion. We might now turn to the very critical role played by Cappadocia in the spreading of Christianity in Anatolia.

Aksaray province is belong to Interior Anatolian Region’s climate; terrestrial climate is dominant, where summers are hot and dry while the winters are cold and snowy.

The Old Baths

The Old (Eski) Baths are right across from the Gazi High School. Although the dressing rooms of the baths are in ruins, the sauna and cold rooms including the boiler room are still intact. From the architecture and building techniques used, the structure can be dated back to the 15th century.

Karacabey Baths

Built in 1444, the Karacabey Baths are on the Talat Pasa Boulevard. Originally designed as a double bath, the west wing consists of adjacent dressing rooms and the east wing, built in a style distinctively different from the west wing, houses the saunas. The whole structure forms an almost perfect square.

Sengul Baths

Located on Istiklal Mahallesi on Aci Cesme Street, the Sengul Baths were designed as a double bath for women and men. Sengul Baths on Istiklal Street used to belong to women, and now belongs to the men. From the construction technique and building materials used in the dressing rooms, which are found side by side, it is obvious that the building was built in the 19th century.

Castles

Even before Istanbul was conquered, a castle had been built by Sultan Yıldırım Bayezıd in 1391. This castle is referred to with various names such as: Anadoluhisar, Akçehisar or Güzelcehisar, it is located at the Black Sea end of the Bosphorus, on the Asian side. Extensions were made by Mehmed the Conqueror in 1452. The latter realised that another castle would be needed on the Bosphorus and in 1452 he had Rumelihisar, or Boğazkesen Hisar as it was known at that time, built in the space of four months. The purpose of these two castles was to prevent the passage of an enemy fleet through the Bosphorus. Rumelihisar was a castle fortified by a number of towers, three of which were extremely large and the remaining ones were small. Old pictures reveal that until the early years of the l9th century there were wooden steeples on these towers.

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Sporting Activities

Mountain - Nature Tracking: Hasandağı Mountain is capable for mountaineering and winter sports. Presently Mount Hasandağ be in demanded by home and foreign mountain climber. At the mountain with the establishment of Klimatizm, that forest interior resting place, nomadism, mountain bike sports, mounted tour excursion and nature tracking are possible.

Fishery with Fishing Line: Mirrored carp and fresh water bass species are breed at Mamasun, Hirfanlı and Kültepe dam lakes. Moreover again crap, bass, trout and yayın fish breed at the out numbered present ponds. There are lots of coral fishes at Uluırmak river which river spring from Melendiz Mountains and flows to Tuz Gölü (Salt Lake). fresh water kerevites that breed at Mamasun Dam Lake are exported to foreign countries.

Governorship : (+90-266) 239 67 04

Municipality : (+90-266) 243 04 00

Hospital : (+90-266) 245 96 26 - 8 Lines

Police : (+90-266) 243 32 64

Gendarme : (+90-266) 221 24 00 - 221 24 01 - 221 24 02

Provincial Directorate : (+90-266) 244 72 71 - 241 18 20

Ayvalık Tourism Information Office : (+90-266) 312 21 22

Edremit Tourism Information Office : (+90-266) 384 11 13

Erdek Tourism Information Office : (+90-266) 835 11 69

Burhaniye Tourism Information Office : (+90-266) 416 35 00

Camps

Ant Camping
Erdek / Bandırma
Tel: (266) 855 74 97

Kizikos Camping
Erdek / Bandırma
Tel: (266) 855 70 71

İpek Camping
Erdek / Bandırma
Tel: (266) 855 71 64

Yeşilim Camping
Çuğra Mevki / Erdek
Tel: (266) 835 30 04

Ali Öztoprak Camping
Erdek / Bandırma
Tel: (266) 855 70 29

Abant Camping
Mangırcı Mevki / Erdek
Tel: (266) 855 70 88

Ünlü Camping
Çuğra Mevki / Erdek
Tel: (266) 835 17 49

Gökçe Turistik Tes.
Erdek / Bandırma
Tel: (266) 855 70 55

Yeşilçam Camping
Narlıaltı / Altınok
Tel: (266) 398 72 92

Mertol Camping
Küçüksu Mevkii / Altınoluk

Antandros Camping
Boğa Mevkii / Altınoluk
Tel: (266) 378 53 61

Çamlıbel Camping
Ilıca İsk. / Güre
Tel: (266) 384 12 47

Gine Camping
Turgut Reis Cad. / Akçay
Tel: (266) 384 11 34

Pat Camping
Güneş Cad. / Akçay
Tel: (266) 384 37 89

Saka Camping
Güneş Cad. / Akçay

Akçay Camping
Yeni mah. / Akçay
Tel: (266) 384 28 18

Provincial Cultural Directorate

Tel: (266) 245 31 52
Fax: (266) 245 31 52

State Fine Arts Gallery Directorate

Eski Kuyumcular Mah. Çavuş Sok. No:30 BALIKESİR
Tel: (0 266) 241 30 45
Fax: 245 31 52

Museum

Balıkesir Museum
Address: Anafartalar Cad. Balıkesir
Tel: (266) 243 31 81

Contact Information

District Head Office Tel: (+90 232) 892 63 66

Selçuk Tourism Information Office Tel: (+90 232) 892 63 28

Selçuk Municipality Office Tel: (+90 232) 892 69 25 / 892 69 11

Police Headquarter Tel: (+90 232) 892 60 04

Hospital Tel: (+90 - 232) 892 70 36