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Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Turkey
Explore 5 Ancient Greek and Roman sacred places in Turkey, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Aphrodisias
Karacasu, Aydın, Turkey
Aphrodisias existed because of Aphrodite. The city took her name, lived under her protection, and created the sculptors who gave divine form to marble across the Roman...
Didyma
Didim, Aydın, Turkey
Didyma held one of the ancient Greek world's most consulted oracles of Apollo, second in prestige only to Delphi....
Ephesus
Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey
For three millennia, the hills above Ephesus have been sacred to feminine divinity—first Cybele, then Artemis whose temple was one of the Seven Wonders, and now Mary,...
Hierapolis Plutonion and the Cleopatra Pool
Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey
Hierapolis was built on a karstic fault that exhales both deadly carbon-dioxide and warm mineral water....
Zindan Cave, Yazılı Canyon
Aksu, Isparta, Turkey
Zindan Cave and Yazılı Canyon are two distinct locations roughly 35-40 km apart in Isparta Province, treated here as sequential stops on the same ancient road and modern...
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This guide includes 5 sacred places within the Ancient Greek and Roman tradition in Turkey.
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