Library of Celcus 2

More Roman ruins...

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June 20th 2010
Look at any glossy tourist brochure on Turkey and chances are you’ll see photos of the Roman ruins at Ephesus and the hot springs at Pamukkale. I wasn’t really looking forward to either but they were more or less on the way the Istanbul so I decided to stop off. I’d heard the ruins were so packed you could barely move and that the springs had been more or less depleted thanks to over exploit ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean

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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