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Kaymakli Underground City
Kaymakli Underground City
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Kaymakli Underground City
Kaymakli Underground City is underground city contained within the citadel of Kaymakli in Nevşehir Province, Turkey. Caves may have first been built in the soft volcanic rock by the Phrygians in the 8th–7th centuries BC. The city was used in the Byzantine era, some artifacts discovered in these underground settlements belong to the Middle Byzantine Period, between the 5th and the 10th centuries AD.
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Country: Turkey
District: Nevşehir Province
Category: Historic Cities and Regions
Site History: 8th Century BC
Oldest Culture: Phrygia
Later Cultures: Byzantine
Site Features: Byzantine Monuments
World Heritage Site
Part of: Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Date of Inscription: 1985
Exact Location
Elevation: 1422 m
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