Aşıklı Höyük
Near Aksaray, the first known village of Central Anatolia: the earliest mud-brick architecture, signs of the shift to farming and rebuilt Neolithic houses at the entrance.
Period
Neolithic Period
Ancient cities
Castabala (Kastabala-Hierapolis)
Hierapolis, Kastabala, Castabala, Hierapolis-Kastabala
Kastabala (Castabala-Hierapolis) is a Cilician city near Osmaniye on the Ceyhan plain, known for its colonnaded street, theatre, churches and Bodrum Castle.
UNESCO
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is a Neolithic settlement on two mounds in the Konya plain, founded about 9,000 years ago, famous for streetless roof-entered houses and wall paintings; listed by UNESCO in 2012.
UNESCO
Çukuriçi Mound
Çukuriçi Mound near Ephesus is a prehistoric settlement tell reaching back to the 7th millennium BC, and one of the three components of the Ephesus World Heritage property.
UNESCO
Ephesus
Ephesos, Arsinoeia, Arsinoe, Apaša, Ayasuluk, Ufsus
Ephesus is an ancient city beside Selçuk in İzmir, home of the Temple of Artemis, a Seven Wonders monument, and a World Heritage Site since 2015.
UNESCO
Göbekli Tepe
Giant T-shaped pillars raised by hunter-gatherers some 12,000 years ago near Şanlıurfa: monumental architecture that predates farming. A World Heritage Site since 2018.
Hasankeyf
Riskepha, Kephas, Kepha, Hasankeyf, Ḥıṣnıkeyf
Hasankeyf is an old Tigris-side town in Batman known for its rock citadel, cave dwellings and Artuqid heritage; a number of its monuments were moved to a new cultural park.
Karahan Tepe
A Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement in the Tek Tek Mountains near Şanlıurfa, known for special buildings cut into bedrock, a carved human head and T-shaped pillars.
Metropolis
Metropolis
Metropolis is an Ionian city at Torbalı beneath Mount Gallesion, known for its theatre, bouleuterion, stoa, Peristyle House and Lower Bath-Palaestra.
Tlos
Tlos, Tlawa, Dalawa
Tlos is a Lycian city at the foot of the Akdağlar in Seydikemer, known for the Bellerophon tomb, theatre, stadium and acropolis, on UNESCO's Tentative List since 2009.
Tripolis
Apollonia, Antoniopolis, Tripolis
Tripolis, in the Buldan district of Denizli, was a Hellenistic city founded as Apollonia on a trade route at the edge of Lydia, excavated since 2012 for its colonnaded street, agora and fountain.