Turkey

This is one of the mid-sized countries which will have several months allotted to it, likely via multiple expeditions here.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction / Backstory
  2. Best Hotels
  3. Nicest Neighborhoods
  4. Vegan Restaurants & Shops
  5. Sites
  6. Additional Notes
  7. Overall/Initial (Images Begin)
  8. Surface
  9. Subsurface
  10. Traditional Bathhouses
  11. Modern Bathhouses

 

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Introduction / Backstory:

Turkey’s ancient history TBA here…

Etymology:

  • “Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, is the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey.”
  • “The east part of the modern Turkey is called Anadolu. Before Ottoman times the Greek speaking East Roman (byzantine) Empire called the same area Ανατολία Anatolia which means east or eastern or east lands. Many european languages adopted the word”
  • “Borrowed from Medieval Latin Anatolia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise, place from where the sun rises, the east”), from ἀνατέλλω (anatéllō, “I rise”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέλλω (téllō, “I perform, accomplish, rise”), because Anatolia was east of Greece.”

 

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Best Hotels:

    1. Adam and Eve Hotel – Antalya
    2. Halicarnassus Club
    3. Hattusa Vacation Club Thermal Kazdağları
    4. Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay – Bodrum
    5. Nemrut Euphrat Hotel; near the stone heads
    6. Taskonaklar Hotel Cappadocia
    7. The Marmara Pera – Istanbul

     

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    Nicest Neighborhoods:

    TBA

     

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    Vegan Restaurants & Shops:

    TBA

     

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    Sites:

    1. 37°58’50.8″N 38°44’26.8″E; stone heads
    2. Antalya
    3. Cappadocia Castle Cave
    4. Çatalhöyük
    5. Ciragan Palace Kempinski
    6. Derinkuyu
    7. Eğil, Diyarbakır
    8. Elazığ
    9. Göbeklitepe (tepe root-word means “top”)
    10. Karatepe Aslantas National Park
    11. Kayseri
    12. *Norşuntepe (first image (B&W) featured in the album below)

     

    *The name of the site is Norşuntepe. Other than it being originally dated as a Neolithic site, its other major point of interest is that evidence of iron smelting long before the Iron Age was supposedly/allegedly going on there.
    It’s now at the bottom of a man-made lake/reservoir in Turkey –which appears doesn’t have a name?
    It seems deliberately flooded due to the timing of the dam being built, and because of its odd location geographically, and being a shallow reservoir (thus illogical for flooding/damming/using as a reservoir).

     

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    Additional Notes:

    While MPHAs will most likely be the vehicle-of-choice to access and leave this country, checking out its airports and other major points of entry may still be done, if only clandestinely.

    1. Adiyaman Airport

     

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    Overall/Initial:

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    Surface:

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    Subsurface:

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    Traditional Bathhouses:

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    Modern Bathhouses:
    (some local, some inspired)

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