Sakarya City Guide: Sakarya City Guide
Sakarya province is located in the Marmara Region and earns attention with its closeness to Istanbul – and thanks to the crowds!
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Rize City Guide: Rize City Guide
As the pearl of the Eastern Black Sea, Rize is a paradise situated among greenery.
Ordu City Guide: Ordu City Guide
As one of the beautiful cities of the Black Sea Region, Ordu is located in the middle of Giresun, Samsun, Tokat, and Sivas cities.
Kırklareli City Guide: Kırklareli City Guide
In compliance with its location, Kırklareli has hosted many civilizations in the history. It is known that the city was submerged during the Ice Age.
Çorum City Guide: Çorum City Guide
Surrounded by Amasya, Çankırı, Sinop, and Kırıkkale provinces, Çorum is a settlement area which dates back to the Paleolithic Period in the Black Sea Region. A good many historical artifacts extant from those periods are worth seeing. Having succeeded to preserve local Anatolian culture, Çorum has remained at the center of civilizations that were established consecutively.
Bayburt City Guide: Bayburt City Guide
Located where the Haldis settled in ancient times, Bayburt is known to have come under the domination of the Roman Empire. It and its surrounding area are one of the places where the Turks first settled in Anatolia.
Grey Route: Mountains of Gods, Gods of Mountains: Grey Route: Mountains of Gods, Gods of Mountains
We fall into Mother Nature’s embrace when we give into our natural longing to live off the grid. We sometimes take to the road with a solid plan, and sometime stake only backpack when we are on the fly. Put simply, camping purifies our souls. We escape from the hurry and the hustle of the big city. We feel our …
Green Route: From Düzce Lowlands to Artvin Mountains: Green Route: From Düzce Lowlands to Artvin Mountains
As one moves from the West to the East across Turkey, the geography escalates, and northern Turkey in particular offers great variations in topography.
The Lost Colony of the Caucasus: The Estonians in Kars
When one thinks of the high plateaus of Eastern Anatolia, the image of a Baltic village rarely comes to mind. However, the city of Kars holds a hidden chapter of history: a 19th-century migration of Estonians who transformed the region’s landscape, architecture, and world-famous dairy industry. The 93 War and the Great Migration (1877-1886) The story begins with the Russo-Turkish …
Abdurrahman Efendi’s Accidental Voyage in Brazil
In the autumn of 1865, two Ottoman corvettes – Bursa and İzmir – set sail from Istanbul on a mission that should have been unremarkable: a long but well-charted voyage around the Cape of Africa to reach Basra in the Persian Gulf. The Suez Canal had not yet been opened, so the route demanded sailing the full length of the Atlantic. Aboard …