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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Turkey accepted the convention on 16 March 1983, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list ...
The architecture and iconography is not unique to the site, with over a half-dozen other similar sites like Karahan Tepe having been found across modern Şanlıurfa Province, dating to approximately the same time period. [9] The site was first noted in a survey in 1963. Schmidt recognized its significance in 1994 and began excavations there the ...
A few ancient settlements are still in use (Adana, Amasya, Ankara, Istanbul, Tarsus etc.) These settlements are not included in the list unless separate articles for the ancient sites exist. Some ancient settlements which were well documented are known by name, but so far they have not been unearthed and their exact locations are obscure.
Location of Haran and other associated Biblical/Torah sites Haran is usually identified with Harran , now a village of Şanlıurfa , Turkey . Since the 1950s, archeological excavations of Harran have been conducted, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which have yielded insufficient discoveries about the site's pre-medieval history [ 3 ] or of its supposed patriarchal ...
Mount Judi (Turkish: Cudi Dağı; Arabic: ٱلْجُودِيّ, romanized: Al-Jūdiyy; [1] Armenian: Արարադ; Kurdish: Çiyayê Cûdîyê) is a mountain in Turkey.It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very early Christian and Islamic traditions (the latter based on the ...
Lystra (Ancient Greek: Λύστρα) was a city in central Anatolia, now part of present-day Turkey. It is mentioned six times in the New Testament. [1] Lystra was visited several times by Paul the Apostle, along with Barnabas or Silas. There Paul met a young disciple, Timothy. [2]
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
The Durupınar site (Turkish: Durupınar sitesi) is a geological formation of 164 metres (538 feet) made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, [1] [2] adjacent to the village of Üzengili in eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is 3 km (1.9 miles) north of the Iranian border, 16 km (9.9 miles) southeast of Doğubayazıt in the Ağrı Province, and 29 ...