The 7 sq mi (17.2 sq km) area is bounded by the Golden Horn to the north, the Bosphorus to the east, the Marmara Sea to the south and land walls to the west. The following four areas have been particularly singled out for conservation:
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A region in Central Anatolia that offers a lunar-like landscape. In the valleys, stones and rock formations in the shape of mushrooms called fairy chimneys stand out in an amazing landscape.
Once a Byzantine outpost, Divrigi became the capital of the Turkish Mengucek Emirs in the 12th and 13th centuries. Visitors come to Divrigi to see the Ulu Mosque and Medrese of 1229.
Impressive double walls, in which are set the Royal Gate, the Lion Gate and the Yer Kapi (an underground tunnel), ring the Hittite city of Hattusas, known today as Bogazkale.
A spectacular and magical site. Snow white lime stones with springs of thermal water have been considered theurapetic since the time of the Romans.
Troy is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. It was first excavated by archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1870. Its extensive remains are the most significant demonstration of the first contact between the civilizations of Anatolia and the Mediterranean world, and the siege of Troy by Spartan and Achaean warriors from Greece in the 13th or 12th century B.C. was immortalized by Homer in the Iliad.
Lynn Garry Salmon <>{ Last updated: October 14, 2011
