Volcanoes of Turkey
Volcanoes: 9 places from 7 provinces of Turkey. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on the Isometric Turkey map.
Mount Ağrı
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” This brief line from the Torah’s Book of Genesis carries perhaps the heaviest…
See on the map →Erciyes
Have you ever dreamed of seeing two seas at once from the top of a mountain? Strabo, the geographer from Amasya, writes that the few who managed to climb to the summit of Argaios, as…
See on the map →Mount Süphan
“Mist has wrapped the mountain’s peak, / The silver stream flows on and on…” When we sing these lines, most of us don’t picture any particular mountain; but look at Süphan on the northern…
See on the map →Mount Hasan
More than eight thousand years ago, a picture was painted on the wall of a house in Çatalhöyük. In the lower part, houses lined up side by side; in the upper part, a twin-peaked mountain…
See on the map →Kula Volcanoes
Describing these lands in the upper valley of the Gediz, the geographer Strabo calls them Katakekaumene, the “Burnt Land”. No trees but vines; pitch-black rocks, ash-gray hills, and the…
See on the map →Lake Meke
In Anatolia, a blue eye is hung on the doors of houses and on babies’ cradles, to ward off the evil eye… But did you know that nature has made its own evil-eye bead on the steppe of Konya…
See on the map →Karadağ & Binbirkilise
In 1909 an intriguing book was published in London: ‘The Thousand and One Churches’, Binbir Kilise in Turkish. Its authors were the archaeologist William Ramsay and Gertrude Bell, famed for…
See on the map →Mount Tendürek
“There’s no smoke without fire,” say our forebears. Anyone who learns that vents still breathe out steam on the summit of Tendürek immediately understands how apt the saying is. So have you…
See on the map →Nemrut Crater Lake
There are two Nemruts in Turkey. One is in Adıyaman, the mountain of a king who wished to sit side by side with the gods; the other stands above Tatvan, a giant volcano that once spewed…
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