Places to visit in Kocaeli
4 places from Kocaeli province are on the map: Osmangazi Bridge & the Gulf, Kartepe, Kefken & Kerpe, and İzmit & the Gulf. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Osmangazi Bridge & the Gulf
“We will either find a way, or make one.” These words, attributed to Hannibal of Carthage, capture the stubbornness of a commander who resolved to cross the Alps with his elephants. But did…
See on the map →Kartepe
How many kilometers from a city does the snow begin? On a winter’s day when a fine rain drizzles over İzmit or the shore of Sapanca, raise your eyes to Kartepe and you will see the answer…
See on the map →Kefken & Kerpe
Around 400 BC, ten thousand Greek mercenaries who had escaped alive from the depths of the Persian lands came to a harbor as they made their way west along the Black Sea coast. Xenophon…
See on the map →İzmit & the Gulf
When the Roman Emperor Diocletian gave up his throne of his own free will in 305, after a reign of more than twenty years, the world froze in astonishment. An emperor stepping down by…
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