Geology wasn’t as developed as today in the past. Thus many earthquake events were missed or misunderstood in the ancient period. After the earthquakes in the sea basins, tsunami is the most important threat for the land. Anatolian coasts don’t have privilege,thus we can come across some tsunami cases on the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts.

Traces of ancient tsunamis were discovered on Turkish coasts. Aegean coasts are the most affected zones from the eruptions and tsunamis. We all know Thera eruption which caused one of the biggest tsunami events in history. After the eruption, tsunami waves extended to Egypt and eastern Mediterranean coasts. Today we can see the cracks and erosions that were the results of a giant tsunami in the region.

Even inner regions of our coasts hide many hints on giant tsunami in the history. It is the reality that Aegean zone (Turkey and Greece) is one of the dynamic earthquake lines in the earth. It was the same in the past. Even today Turkey and Greece may face giant earthquakes so it means that tsunamis will form. We have an advantage of science at present so we can guess the tsunami earlier. The ancient public didn’t have this advantage. İzmir region is one of the dynamic zones of Turkey. The archeaological excavations prove us that Smyrna and the region (Old İzmir) faced tsunami in a time.

The archeaological excavations will show us many hints on tsunami and human civilization.

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We are in southern eastern Anatolia. An ancient site which is located in Diyarbakır province at present attracts the local visitors right now but it is so valuable that this site can be famous worldwide. An ancient site which was carved in solid rock (Hasuni valley) has an archeaological importance.

This site can be considered as a hidden site. The solid rock was shaped as a site with 300 rooms and churchs.

The construction year isn’t clear but it is thought that it was established in 13th century.

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As we all know that Anatolian peninsula is covered by three seas (Aegean, Black Sea and Mediterranean). So marine trade routes have great importance as others as, such as Silk Road. Some civilizations developed their trade fleet and dominated coasts of Anatolia. Some places were bases of navies.

We can find out that there was a trade chain starting from Aegean coasts to Greece. Once upon a time, there used to be port sites such as Ephesus. Actually Ephesus is located inland due to alluvion filling. Even today Aegean coasts are being filled by alluvions. We know that trade routes transported many items to Roman Empire and Greek civilizations.

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