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EGEAN
J
ust dream of a region… On the one side there is
the Aegean Sea and on the other side there are
mountains and fertile plains reaching into the
core of Anatolia. This is exactly why the peoples of the
ancient times did not want to give up on this region.
Apollon, the god of the sun, fire and poetry in Anatolia,
stepped on these lands and illuminated the opposite
coast of the Aegean. The peoples of the Ancient Aegean
expressed their gratitude to the soil and the sun by
building spectacular cities. They always had olive oil in
one hand and wine pots in the other. Centuries passed
into millennia, and the light of Apollon has never died
away. Ephesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the
small town of Şirince, the travertines of Pamukkale
with its snow-white sheet, and Sardis, the capital of the
Lydian who invented the money.