Topic
Greek Orthodox Heritage
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35 pieces on this topic
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Place · Aegean
Cunda Island
Cunda off Ayvalık: an Aegean island of stone houses, fish restaurants, a hilltop windmill and the restored Taksiyarhis church, linked to the…
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Place · Fethiye
Kayaköy
Kayaköy near Fethiye, the abandoned Greek town of Livissi: hundreds of roofless stone houses, two Orthodox churches and the story of its…
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Place · Istanbul
Princes’ Islands
The Princes' Islands off Istanbul: nine car-free islands of pine woods and wooden mansions, with Büyükada, Heybeliada, Burgazada and Kınalıada.
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Place · Cappadocia
Güzelyurt
Güzelyurt, old Gelveri, in southern Cappadocia: a stone town in a rocky gorge below Mount Hasan, with the church of St. Gregory…
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Place · Cappadocia
Ürgüp
Ürgüp in Cappadocia: a wine town of grand stone mansions around Temenni Hill, the Three Beauties fairy chimneys, a Greek past as…
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Place · Cappadocia
Mustafapaşa
Mustafapaşa, the old Greek town of Sinasos in Cappadocia: stone mansions built with caviar money from Constantinople, a church framed in painted…
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Place · Ephesus
Şirince
A hillside village of white houses above Ephesus: once a Greek village named "ugly", renamed "pleasant", famous for its fruit wines and…
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Place · Istanbul
Kuzguncuk
A village on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus: wooden houses, a mosque and a church side by side, a synagogue, and…
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Place · Istanbul
Pandeli
Pandeli, the tiled restaurant above the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul: its story since 1901, the 1955 pogrom and the move upstairs, what…
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Place · Aegean
Erythrai
Erythrai at Ildırı on the Çeşme peninsula: an Ionian city of sibyls and millstones on a hill above a bay of islands…