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Cappadocia
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CD-Rom ''Cappadocia - Land of Rock-cut Churches and Volcanoes''
Published 21st December 2004 |
Like no other region in the world, Cappadocia in the heart of Turkey unites a fairytale landscape with gorgeous Byzantine cave churches, Hittite stone reliefs, Roman ruins, splendid Seljuk caravanserais, and adventurous underground cities (English and German).
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- UNESCO world heritage since 1985
- impressive landscape
- centre of tourists
- historical monuments from prehistoric, Roman, Byzantine and Turkish period.
- archaeologist and anthropologist as authors
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360 degree panoramically view of Göreme.
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History
Become acquainted with the rich history of Cappadocia, from the early Neolithic times, Bronze Age, and antiquity till the Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman period. |
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Travel reports
Choose one of the five travel reports. Numerous travellers have given us highly vivid descriptions of the unique rock landscape and the bizarre systems of rock-cut dwellings. Almost all of the authors shows their astonishment at the tuff cones towering to the sky, which create the effect of a "shimmering moonscape".
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Göreme
Explore the National Park of Göreme-Cappadocia, world heritage since 1985. Visit the traditionally living people of Central Anatolia and see their oriental customs.
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Landscape & Nature
Go through the amazing landscape of Cappadocia. Visit extinct volcanoes, great steppe-like plains, the River Kizilirmak, called Halys in antiquity, or the deep Ihlara Gorge. Experience something about the origin of the famous tuff cones./td>
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Places & Cultures
In Cappadocia, there are a lot of picturesque villages with a long history (Ortahisar, Uchisar, Cavusin, Ürgüp, Mustafapasa). You can find everywhere Hittite stone reliefs, Roman aqueducts and tombs, Byzantine churches, and Seljuk castles, caravanserais and mosques. |
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Links on Cappadocia
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Introduction:
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History:
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Bibliography
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General:
- see bibliography on the CD "Cappadocia - Land of Rock-cut Churches and Volcanoes"
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Antiquity:
- Raymond Van Dam, Kingdom of Snow. Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia (Philadelphia 2002): Cappadocia during 4th cent. AD
- Dietrich Berges - Johannes Nollé, Tyana. Archäologisch-historische Untersuchungen zum südwestlichen Kappadokien, Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 55,1.2 (2000)
- Dietrich Berges, Tyana in Kappadokien, Antike Welt 32,2, 2001, pp. 177-187
- Michael Henke, Kappadokien in hellenistischer Zeit (Magisterarbeit University Münster 2005)
- Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia I and II (Oxford 2001)
- Theodor Mommsen, Römische Geschichte (1854) p. 4
- Bono Simonetta, The Coins of the Cappadocian Kings (Fribourg 1977)
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Byzantine Period:
- Lyn Rodley, Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia (Cambridge 1985)
- Rainer Warland, Kreuzkuppelkirche und Klosteranlage im Kizilçukur bei Çavusin/Kappadokien, A. Die Klosteranlage, in: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 42, 1992, pp. 307-317
- Ibid., Deesis-Emmanuel-Maria. Zum Bildkonzept kappadokischer Höhlenkirchen des 13. Jh., in: G. Koch (ed.), Byzantinische Malerei: Bildprogramme, Ikonographie, Stil. Symposium in Marburg 25.-29.6.1998 (Wiesbaden 2000) pp. 365-386
- Ibid., Das Freiburger Musterblatt und die Bildgeschichte der byzantinischen Zweireiterikone, in: L. M. Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Zwischen Polis, Provinz und Peripherie. Beiträge zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur (Wiesbaden 2005) pp. 883-893
- Robert Ousterhout, A Byzantine settlement in Cappadocia. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 42 (2005)
- Rainer Warland, Das Bildertemplon von Güzelöz und das Bildprogramm der Karanlik Kilise/Kappadokien. Zur Medialität des Bildes in Byzanz, in: M. Altripp - C. Nauerth (edd.), Architektur und Liturgie. Akten des Kolloquiums vom 25. bis 27. Juli 2003 in Greifswald (Wiesbaden 2006) pp. 211-221
- Ibid., Byzantinisches Mönchtum, in: Kristina Krüger (ed.), Orden und Klöster. 2000 Jahre christlicher Kunst und Kultur (Königswinter 2007) pp. 328-353
- Ibid., Die byzantinische Höhlensiedlung von Gökce/Momoasson in Kappadokien. Gehöfte, Grabkapellen mit Wandmalerei und ein vermögender Salbölhändler, in: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 58, 2008, pp. 347-369
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