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> CITIES & TOWNS Prehistory Select Introduction to Anatolia > SOCIAL LIFE Bronze Age ( 3000 - 1200 BC ) Education Folklore Chalcholithic Age ( Copper Age) ( 5500-3000 BC) Holidays Neolithic Age ( 8000 BC - 5000 BC ) The Evil Eye Nightlife > GEOGRAPHY Neolithic Age (8000 BC - 5000 BC) Geography This period reveals a new step in the history of mankind with the development of Flora & Fauna the established and settled societies and production of food. Anatolia once again Climate gives the most comprehensive sites in the world for this age with Cayonu, Hacilar, Weather Population Catalhoyuk and Koskhoyuk excavation sites. The Cayonu settlement which is not Cities far from the city of Diyarbakir has been unearthed by the expedition teams under Sites the leadership of Cambel, Braidwood, Mehmet Ozdogan, Wulf Schirmen and it is Regions dated back to 7250-6750 BC. In the middle of the settlement is a center and Distances around it are monumental, rectangular structures and houses. The foundation of > ART & CULTURE the structures is stone and above is sun-dried brick. The inhabitants of Cayonu Arts Music were the first farmers of Anatolia. They raised sheep and goat, and domesticated Turkish Music the dog. The woman figurines among the finds discovered are the earliest traces Mehter of the Mother Goddess cult. The Hacilar Settlement, brought to the daylight by > COMMUNICATION James Mellart, located 25 km southwest of Burdur, is dated back to 5700-5600 Communication in BC. The walls and the floors of Hacilar houses which are made of mud-brick on Turkey stone foundations are lime mortared and red painted. Wooden poles for Emergency Numbers Local Area Codes supporting flat roofs and ladders suggesting that some structures had two stories International Country have been discovered. In every house, there are goddess figurines made of clay, Codes in standing and sitting postures. Different from other settlement areas, the dead > ECONOMY are buried outside the cities. The pottery in Hacilar is well fired and comes in red, Economy in Turkey brown and yellow colors. The Catalhoyuk settlement, 52 km southeast of Konya Currency Exchange Rates of and north of the town of Cumra, is dated back to 6800-5000 BC and it is the most US-Dollar developed center of the Near East and the Aegean. The excavations have shown (1975-2001) that the city with ten different settlement levels was built according to a designed Inflation in Turkey plan. This is achieved by arranging the rectangular planned houses next to one > TURKISH BATH another around the courtyards. There are no stone foundations in Catalhoyuk Turkish Bath and all the houses carry flat roofs. Houses were made up of mud brick and they Cagaloglu Hamami > TIME & DATE all were built according to the same ground plan. They have no doors. Instead the World Times Zone entrance to them is through windows on the ceilings by using portable ladders. > WINING & The windows for air and light are placed on the topmost part of the walls near the DINING roofs. The houses are composed of wide living rooms, storage rooms and Wining & Dining in kitchens. In the rooms there are seats and furnaces. The dead are buried under Turkey the seats in the houses after having been dried in the sun.The walls of the houses Turkish Cuisine Cookbook are decorated with bull heads and paintings. These paintings which signify the Recipe of The Week rituality in the community are placed in a corner in the houses rather than in a > SHOPPING special separate location within the settlement area. Bull heads are formed in high Shopping in Turkey reliefs, like statues, and some of them are made by covering original bullheads Istanbul with clay. In the formation of the wall paintings, red, brown, black, white and pink Shopping in Istanbul Akmerkez dyes on top of the gray mud brick are used. Among the motifs used are Bazaar54 geometrical designs, flowers, stars, circles and in some parts depictions of life as Capitol well as human hands, deities, human figures, hunting scenes, bulls, birds, Galerya vultures, leopards, wild deer and pigs, lions and bears. A depiction of the eruption Grand Bazaar of a volcanic mountain (very likely, Mount Hasan, near Cappadocia) is the oldest Lapis known scenery painting. In Catalhoyuk, we can also trace the early stages of Sentez Spicemarket farming. This is also accompanied with the worship of the Mother Goddess along

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Spicemarket gp p g Ankara with the holy animal, the bull. The Mother Goddess stands for fertility and Karum Ankara multiplication of man. In the excavations carried in Hacilar and Catalhoyuk, Bodrum hundreds of Mother Goddess statutes have been found. She, with her sexual Shopping in Bodrum organs in exaggeration is almost always depicted nude and lies down in the Izmir postures of crouching, and specially in the process of birth-giving . The fact that Shopping in Izmir Urfa similarly designed Mother Goddess statues could also be found in the Near Shopping in Urfa Eastern and Aegean cultures signifies the existence of matriarchal societies in Kocaeli these regions in the same time periods. The Goddess Kybele comes into sight Izmit Outlet around the 7000 BC. Most of the finds from this period are on display in Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. As for Koskhoyuk; during the excavations Tax Free Shopping > CONVENTIONS & carried by Ugur Silistre in Koskhoyuk, near Nigde, ornate pottery pieces and EXHIBITION statues have been discovered. CENTERS Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Center > RELIGION Islam in Turkey Koran Hz. Muhammed Bismillah Ezan Ramadan Mevlana Mevlevi Sufism

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