The Palace House remains..

Sector 2 - Troy, Selcuk....

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September 11th 2008
Fez Bus: Sector 2 - Canakkale to Selcuk The next day was very hot and very long and for the most part we were stuck on a bus with no air-con. We set off at 8am and stopped soon after for a tour of Troy - now I have never really thought about it but if anyone had ever asked I would have guessed that Troy (and a number of other amazing sites) was in Greece but Turkey is actually home to a huge nu ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Selçuk

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more