Van Fortress: The Ancient Citadel of Urartu
On a long, steep-sided ridge of rock rising from the plain beside the shimmering waters of Lake Van, in the far east of Turkey, stand the ruins of one of
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On a long, steep-sided ridge of rock rising from the plain beside the shimmering waters of Lake Van, in the far east of Turkey, stand the ruins of one of
On a nine-metre mound by the Danube, the Vinča culture built fine pottery, thousands of figurines, Europe’s first copper, and mysterious signs some believe are the continent’s earliest script.
In the green hills of northern Morocco, not far from the imperial city of Meknes, stand the ruins of Volubilis, the finest Roman site in the country and one of
Vote on whether you would give your honey a “Turkish name”. 18 Sunday Oct 2015 Posted by Türk in Articles ≈ 1 Comment Tagsturkish
Some castles impress you with their size, others with their beauty. The Wartburg does something rarer: it makes you feel that you are standing at one of the places where
If you had to pick one castle to show someone who had never seen a real medieval fortress, you could do a lot worse than Warwick. Rising sheer above the
There are castles that a nation loves, and then there is Wawel, which a nation almost worships. Rising on a limestone hill above the Vistula river in the heart of
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North of Mexico City, Tula’s basalt warrior columns mark the Toltec capital that Aztec rulers later revered as Tollan, the legendary birthplace of civilization itself.
Picture a castle that has been somebody’s home for nearly a thousand years, without a single break. Not a ruin, not a museum piece roped off behind glass, but a