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Adana

Adana (pronounced [aˈda.na]; Ancient Greek: Άδανα) is a Cilician city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 35 km (22 mi) inland from the north-eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province and has a population of 1.77 million. Adana lies in the heart […]

Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar (pronunciation: [afjonkaɾahiˈsaɾ], Turkish: afyon “poppy, opium”, kara “black”, hisar “fortress”) is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, 250 km (155 mi) south-west of Ankara along the Akarçay River. In Turkey, Afyonkarahisar stands out as a capital city of thermal and […]

Ağrı

Ağrı, formerly known as Karaköse from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise (romanized: Karakilisa, lit. ‘Black Church’), is the capital of Ağrı Province at the eastern end of Turkey, near the border with Iran. Ağrı is named after the Turkish name of Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı). History In […]

Adıyaman

Adıyaman city in southeastern Turkey, and the capital of the Adıyaman Province. There is some passing tourist trade, the main tourist attraction being Mount Nemrut. Etymology The city officially had the Ottoman Turkish name Hısn-ı Mansur (“Castle of Mansur”) until the year 1926, named after the fortified castle perched on a hill around which the […]

Adalar

The Prince Islands (Greek: Πριγκηπονήσια, Pringiponisia, Turkish: Prens Adaları; the word “princes” is plural, because the name means “Islands of the Princes”) or Kızıl Adalar (“Red Islands”) in Turkish, officially just Adalar (“Islands”), are an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. The islands constitute the Adalar district of Istanbul […]

Aksaray

Aksaray (aksaɾaj) is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital district of Aksaray Province. According to 2009 census figures, the population of the province is 376 907 of which 171,423 live in the city of Aksaray. The district covers an area of 4,589 km2 (1,772 sq mi), and the average elevation is 980 m (3,215 ft), with the highest point being Mt. Hasan at […]

Amasya

Amasya (Greek: Ἀμάσεια) is a city in northern Turkey and is the capital of Amasya Province, in the Black Sea Region. Tokat from east, Tokat and Yozgat from south, Çorum from west, Samsun from north. The city of Amasya (Turkish pronunciation: [aˈmasja]), the Amaseia or Amasia of antiquity, stands in the mountains above the Black […]

Ankara

Ankara, historically known as Ancyra is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 4.5 million in its urban centre and over 5.6 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey’s second-largest city after Istanbul. Serving as the capital of the ancient Celtic state of Galatia (280–64 […]

Antalya

Antalya (Turkish pronunciation: [anˈtalja], from Ancient Greek: Ἀττάλεια) is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Located on Anatolia’s southwest coast bordered by the Taurus Mountains, Antalya is the largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean coast outside the Aegean region with over one million people in its metropolitan area. The […]

Ardahan

Ardahan (Georgian: არტაანი) is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border. It is the capital of Ardahan Province. Ardahan has a warm summer humid continental climate. History Ancient and medieval The first surviving record about this region is attributed to Strabo, who calls it Gogarene (Gugark) and mentions that it was a part […]