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Eventually, the Byzantines regained control over Cappadocia and under their rule Christianity and Christian architecture in Cappadocia entered a golden age. [8] By the eleventh century, roughly three thousand churches had been carved in the rocks. Rock-cut architecture in Monks Valley, Paşabağ, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of ...
Location of Ravalli County in Montana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ravalli County, Montana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ravalli County, Montana, United States. There are 92 properties and districts listed on the ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Montana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,100 listings are distributed across all of its 56 counties .
Location of Gallatin County in Montana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gallatin County, Montana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Situated on the edge of Göreme National Park, Uçhisar consists of an old village huddled around the base of a huge rock cone and a new one closer to the road that runs from Nevşehir town to Göreme. Like most of Cappadocia, Uçhisar once made a living from agriculture but now depends almost entirely on tourism, with many of its fine old ...
Caves might have been built initially in the soft volcanic rock of the Cappadocia region by the Phrygians in the 8th-7th century BC. [6] When the Greek language replaced the Phrygian language there in Roman times, [7] the inhabitants expanded their caverns to deep multiple-level structures adding the chapels and Greek inscriptions. [8] [c]
Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately nine to three million years ago, during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs, underlie the Cappadocia region. The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. People of ...
The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a national monument in the western United States, protecting the Missouri Breaks of north central Montana.Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it is a series of badland areas characterized by rock outcroppings, steep bluffs, and grassy plains; a topography referred to as "The Breaks" (as the land appears to "break away" to the river).