"Cappadocia," Turkey

Wonders of Asia, "Cappadocia," Turkey, Asia

• Over millennia, lava, wind, and water have played their part in creating the bizarre rock formations of Cappadocia. These forces are still at work today on this masterpiece of nature's art in the central Anatolian highlands.
  

• ​The Turks call the Cappadocian rock formations the peri bacalar, or fairy chimneys.

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• The Village of Uchisar surrounds a rock formation in which one can still see the carved entrances to underground houses and churches. The forces of erosion are responsible for the bizarre rock landscape of Cappadocia. 

Important DATES to remember for "Cappadocia," Turkey part of continent Asia. 

❤️ca. 700-6500 BCE: First human settlement in Cappadocia.
❤️ca. 1600-650 BCE: Hittites, Phrygians, and Lydians settled here
❤️402 BCE: The Greek historian Xenophon described the underground cities for the first  time.
❤️13th century CE:  The Byzantine author Skutariotes described the Cappadocian cave cities.
❤️1923: Greek Orthodox Christians abandoned the region following the Turkish War of Independence. 

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