Assos
Assos, Apollonia, Behramkale
A city on an extinct volcano at Behramkale where Aristotle lived for three years: Anatolia's only Archaic Doric temple, city walls, agora, theatre and a sarcophagus necropolis.
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Ayatekla (Meryemlik) Archaeological Site
Meryemlik, Hagia Thekla
Ayatekla (Meryemlik) near Silifke is an early Christian pilgrimage site built around the cave where Saint Thekla is said to have taken refuge, with church, bath and cistern remains.
Blaundos
Blaundos, Blaundus, Mlaundos, Blaundeon Makedonon
Blaundos is a Hellenistic and Roman city in Ulubey, Uşak, built on a headland cut off by deep valleys on three sides, near Sülümenli village.
UNESCO
Bursa and Cumalıkızık
Eight sites in Bursa (complexes, a khan district, tombs) and the waqf village of Cumalıkızık record the first Ottoman capital; inscribed in 2014.
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.
Çavuşin Church
Çavuşin Church is a two-storey rock-cut church beside the Göreme–Avanos road; its frescoes of 964-965 include portraits of Emperor Nicephorus Phocas and his family.
UNESCO
City of Safranbolu
Safranbolu, a caravan-trade town in Karabük, keeps its Ottoman street pattern and timber-and-stone houses in the districts of Çukur, Kıranköy and Bağlar.
Claros
Klaros, Claros
Claros near Izmir was an oracle sanctuary of Apollo, known for the only Doric temple in Ionia, its altar, a hundred-animal tethering block and giant cult statues found in place.
Clazomenae
Klazomenai, Khyton
One of the twelve Ionian cities of the Gulf of Izmir, beside modern Urla, with the oldest olive-oil workshop yet found in Anatolia and an Archaic city wall.
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.
Dara
Dara, Daras, Anastasiopolis
Dara is an East Roman garrison city near Mardin, built against the Sasanians; it is known for four kilometres of walls, giant cisterns, rock-cut tombs and a market district under excavation.