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National Day: 29th October

President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The country has two places which are part of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World. They are the Temple of Artemis and Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
The place known as Troy from the legendary Trojan Wars is located in Western
Turkey.

2. The oldest recognized human settlement is in Catalhoyuk, which is in Central

Turkey.

3. The country has two places which are part of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World. They are the Temple of Artemis and Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

4. Saint Nicholas, who is popularly known as Santa Claus, was born in Turkey.

5. The first signs of writing were found in Anatolia, Turkey. It was in 1950 B.C.
when clay tablets were found in the Assyrian ruins.

6 The first Neolithic paintings found on man-made walls were discovered in

Catalhoyuk.

7. The world’s oldest shipwreck was found in Kas. It is currently being displayed
in the Submarine Archaeology Museum.

8. The world’s most precious silk carpet is stored in the Mevlana Museum, which is
located in Konya.

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hagia sophia

Hagia Sophia, Turkish Ayasofya, Latin Sancta Sophia, also called Church of the Holy
Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom , cathedral built at Constantinople (now
Istanbul, Turkey) in the 6th century A.D. (532–537) under the direction of the
Byzantine emperor Justinian I.

From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as a Greek Orthodox
cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and
1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire.

The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and
opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.

CAPPADOCIA:

1. Three to four million years ago a series of volcanic eruptions shook the Central
Anatolian area, forming what we now know as the Cappadocia fairies or ‘Cotton
Castles’.

2. Cappadocia’s landscape was formed by volcanic erosion. Thick ash solidified into
a soft rock, called tuff, and over time the tuff rocks eroded with wind and water,
creating the iconic fairy chimneys we see today.

3. Cappadocia spans a distance of 5,000 kilometres and sits on an altitude of over

1,000 metres, cutting through three Anatolian provinces – Nevsehir, Keyseri and
Nigde.

4. The name Cappadocia derives from the Persian word Katpaktukya, which means ‘the
land of beautiful horses’ for in ancient times the region was known for its equine
offering. Horses are still important to the locals who call Cappadocia home and
they also offer an alternative mode of transport for visitors.

MOUNT NEMRUT:
Mount Nemrut is one of the greatest sights of Eastern Turkey. It is located in the
Adiyaman province’s Kahta district. It attracts tourists because of its height
which goes up to 2,134 meters, but moreover, it is famous for the giant head
statues that are there on its summit.