Turkey Sightseeing
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Other Sights
Turkey is a country completely overflowing with ancient monuments of many civilizations. From rock tombs, ruins of Roman and Greek cities, Christian rock towns, to Ottoman and Seljuk mosques.
Cities
Religious buildings
Mosques: due to the fact that Turkey is a predominantly Muslim country, you will find a mosque in every town and village. The most famous of them can be found in Istanbul. Here is the famous Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed) and next to the former Byzantine temple Hagia Sofia. In Edirne there is an important mosque Selimiye, in Ankara Kocatepe Armenian churches: in the far east of Turkey there are many Armenian monuments and a church. The most picturesque is the church of Akhtamar (Akdamar) located on the island of the same name on the breathtaking Lake Van (there are other islands with monuments / monasteries Ktuts and Anapat /. Other important monuments are in Ani, which are the ruins of the former Armenian royal city