POTTERY

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The history of pottery in Cappadocia goes back to Hittites.Pottery making first started in Anatolia during the Neolithic age (7 th millennium BC) at Çatalhöyük (Konya),and,around the 2000 BC,the Assyians of Mesopotamia brought the skill of terracotta pot making to their trading partners,the Hittites.The handicraft has been continued by the civilisations of the region to date.


The most renowned terracotta pottery producing town of Cappadocia is Avanos.The town is built on volcanic soil,and the silt carried by the Kızılırmak River as well as the good quality clay deposits make the tow a suitable place for ceramic production.The red fat soil is processed and brought for hand turning at simple-looking workshops.



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UNDERGROUND CISTERN

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This is he biggest and most spectacular cistern in the city.The ceiling of the cistern, which looks like a forest of pillars,is covered with bricks and crosswise arches.It was named the Basilica Cistern because of a basilica which used to be in the vicinity.It was built during the reign of Justinanus the 1th to provide water to the palaces in the vicinity.The pillars are decorated with some plain and Corinthian style pillar heads.There are 336 pillars.The floor was cleaned during the big restoration 1984,unearthing from one meter of mud the original floor of bricks and marble blocks with the figure of medusa's head. in ISTANBUL

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THE PRINCES ISLANDS

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It was a side for exiled palace members particularly in the Byzantine era.It was called Prinkipo in the past. The highest point in the island is the Hill Of Hagia Yorgi.The Hagia Yorgi Monastry is visited by tens of thounds of people from different religions particularly on the 23rd of April and the 24th of September.It is a beautiful district with its peaceful environment as well as old buildings and manor houses built from stone,wood or both.

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