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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
