We all mention that this landscape is admired by everyone. The best proof for this statement is the devil’s table in Ayvalık district of Balıkesir county in Western Anatolia. There is an incredible place on the shore of Western Anatolia. I guess that devil was looking for a nice place to have a rest and devil discovered Ayvalık. Devil sat […]

We are tuning the time machine to 33 AD and our location is Ephesus. This is the immigration of Virgin Mary to Ephesus. Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem and Jerusalem wasn’t safe for Christians. So St.Jean decided to run away from Jerusalem in order to survive Virgin Mary. They had been on a long way for months. They arrived to […]

Tokat Castle is a very special place because it was used as prison for some famous characters of history. We are tuning the time machine to the Roman Age. It was built between BC 30 and AD 395 for Roman border control then Byzantines had dominated this castle for 500 years. Then Turks came here. It was used as prison […]

We are going back to 1098 February and our location is Edessa (today’s Urfa ). Crusaders planned a campaign to rule Jerusalem. They achieved their purpose, they established a kingdom in Jerusalem. In addition to this kingdom, they established a county in southeastern region of this landscape. Edessa was the site that was located strategically and Crusaders established a county […]

We are going back to BC 412. We are going to meet a man called Diogenes. He was living in Black sea of Small Asia. He became one of the best known philosophers in ancient era. He was an extra ordinary man of the age. Diogenes was a philosopher that was born in Sinop.He was born in BC 412. He […]

This love story is dated back to Troy war epic. Amazon queen Penthesilea joined the Troy war as an alien of Troy. She was good at fighting so everyone paid attention to this warrior but they didn’t know that this warrior was a female warrior. She got so famous that Achilles wanted to fight with her. Finally he got the […]

Homer was the famous poet of ancient era because he was the author of Iliada. It was about the trip of a soldier to Greece after Troy war. It took ten years to come back to Greece. It was a well known classic poet and everybody knew that poem Iliada. He was from Ionia and he lived in Smyrna. Small […]

Alexander the Great was one of the first world emperors of ancient era. He dreamt his future and decided to build his own empire. He started his military campaign from Small Asia (today’s Çanakkale) and conquered almost whole Asia and North Africa. If we could travel in time and wanted to go that period, probably you would face a developed […]

One of the most powerful queens of ancient era Cleopatra was one of the visitors that came to this landscape. Tarsus was one of the important Roman cities because it was a busy port. Cleopatra and Roman general Antonius were lovers. She came to Tarsus in order to meet her lover Antonius. Cleopatra entered the city from that gate.