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Cappadocia
Cappadocia
The Cappadocia , a semi-arid region in central Turkey, is the place where nature and history are most beautifully integrated in the world. The city is known for its distinctive “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations clustered in Monks Valley, Göreme and elsewhere. While geographical events were creating the Fairy Chimneys, people also carved houses and churches into these fairy chimneys, decorated them with frescoes, and carried the traces of thousands of years old civilizations to the present day.Other notables sites include Bronze Age homes carved into valley walls by troglodytes (cave dwellers) and later used as refuges by early Christians. The 100m-deep Ihlara Canyon houses numerous rock-face churches.
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