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  • Kaymakli Underground City

  • 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.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia.
    World Heritage Site
    Kaymakli Underground City
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    Kaymakli Underground City

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1985

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Turkey

    Nevşehir Province

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    8th Century BC

    Phrygia

    Byzantine

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    Byzantine Monuments

     

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