People and Places
   
Photos of the World  by  Galen R Frysinger

 

Turkey

Turkey

 

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Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya in Turkish), built in the 6th century as an Orthodox Christian (Byzantine) church
 and later converted into a mosque

Photos of Turkey

 

an overnight stop for camel caravans

Agzikarahan

 

from the Seljuk period

Ahlat

 

Church of the Holy Cross
(Altamar, Aghtamar: S. Xac, S. Khatch)
921 AD

Akhtamar

 

town square
statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,  (1881-1938)
founder of modern Turkey

Amasya

 

Armenian style church

Ani

 

tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,  (1881-1938)

Ankara

 

church built within the grotto by Crusaders in the 12th and 13th centuries

Antioch

 

rock chapels carved by the early Christians

Cappadocia

 

the mosque

Diyarbakir

 

Urartu fortress at Cavustepe

Dogubayazit

 

After the death of Celsus Polemaenus in 114 AD
his son started the construction of a monument
and the library, and in his will left a sum of 25,000 denarii
to be used for the completion of the library and the purchase of books

Ephesus

 

site of ancient Harran

Harran

 

Hittite Cities

 

entrance to the great palace complex of Topkapı Sarayı

Istanbul

 

Konya, a town Holy to Muslims

Konya

 

Mount Nemrut

 

nomad camp

Nomadic Peoples

 

Pergamum
(much of the temple is in the museum in Berlin)

Pergamum and Troy

 

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the Byzantine Monastery of the Virgin at Sumela

Sumela

 

view of the town

Urfa

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