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TRUVA,
is one of the most famous archeological
cities in the world. The 9 layers seen in Troy are continuously
points out a time more than 3000 years and provide us to trace
the civilizations established in this unique geography at
which Anatolian, Aegean and the Balkans regions are met.
The
earliest residential layer in Troy dates 3000-2500 BC, early
bronze age; after being residence continuously,
Troyan layers ends with Roman period dating 85 BC-8 AD
centuries. Due to its geographical position, Troy always had
an important part in the terms of trading and culturel
relationships between the civilizations once ruled in the
region and the ones in the other regions. Troy has also a
reference for the other archeological areas in the Aegean and
the Europe by its continuous layers. First in 1871 by Heinrich
Schliemann, and than by W. Dörpfeld,
by C.W. Blegen having been excavated, in this
magnificent archeological city the excavations are still being
held by Prof. Dr. Manfred Korfmann from the University of
Tubingen.Troy, still offering endless datas for us in the
excavations held by Korfman and his crew, has taken a place in
the World Inheritance List since 1998.
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You
shouldn’t leave our region without seeing BAŞDEĞİRMEN,
taken place in Adatepe Village.
The canyon formed during the run of the stream of Mıhlı,
also mentioned in Homeros’s epic of Ilyada, keeping on
running for thousands of years from Kaz Mountain to the Aegean,
charms the people watching with its unique beauty. It’s a
naturel beauty where people sweltering by the hot summer run
to see and let themselves the freshness of Kaz Mountain
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ASSOS
or its name
today Behramkale(Behramköy) is a residential place, in the
district of Ayvacik in Çanakkale, existing continuously about
3 thousands of years since the years of 1000 BC. Famous by its
fish and calamary Assos is a paradise whose beauty gets reason
for Aristo, a famous philosopher, to be married there.
It’s supposed to be established by the people from
Methymna who had come from Mytilene on 7 BC century.
The acropolis, built on a hill, both overlooking to the sea
and the ground, is surrounded by a wall, 3 km lenght. It
is qualified as one of the most important walls in its
period in terms of its work and architecture. Especially its
doors, made in different styles from eachother , fascinate the
visitors coming.
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KADIRGA
BAY, nearer to Adatepe Village, is one of the most beautiful bays in Turkey.
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SARIKIZ:
Kazdağı is the
setting for legends not only in mythology but
also in the modern day. Among the many legends
and stories that are told among the Turkmen
people of the region is the one about "Sarıkız"
(The blonde girl). Sarıkız was a beautiful and
good hearted girl from the village of Güre in
Edremit. But those jealous of her started
malicious rumours about the girl. The rumours
spread and her father, thinking she had lost her
virginity, took her and some geese to the peak
of Kazdağları and left her and the geese to fend
for themselves.After a while the father got
curious and decided to see what Sarıkız was up
to where he had left her. He found her. When he
wanted to take a wash before praying he asked
his daughter to fetch some water. Sarıkız
reached her hand across the mountain and filled
her receptacle with water from the sea and
handed the water to her father. The father
realised that his daughter Sarıkız had become a
saint. However, Sarıkız, realising that her
secret had become known, died on the spot. The
father was deeply saddened by this and also dies
on the next peak ahead.Turkmen villagers
refer to the spot where Sarıkız died as Sarıkız
Tepesi (Hill) and the area where the father died
as Baba Dağı (Father Hill).
Every year the
Turkmen of the Kazdağları climb to Sarıkız
Tepesi and sacrifice sheep and cook them in a
feast to be enjoyed all together. In Hellenic
mythology, Priam's son Paris was left on Mount
Ida and looked after geese and Sarıkız and the
geese doing the same bring these two stories
together.
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TAHTA
KUŞLAR PRİVATE ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM:
It’s the first private Ethnography Museum, 17 km to
Edremit, 5 km to Akçay, and connected with Balıkesir Çanakkale
E-24 highway by an asphalt road, 2 km distance from there and
an art gallery, founded in 1992 , it has also been the first
one ever founded in a village in Turkey. In the gallery it’s
exhibited that the amazing and authentic
culturel wealth of Nomad Turkish people, who immigrated
from Middle Asia to Turkey, such as clothings, tools, carpets
and tents. Also, in the art gallery, a variety of art works
are exhibited during the year. Besides Zeytinli Tea Garden,
Sarıkız Hill, Şıpşıp Dede and Edremit Park are the
places worth to see.
It’s
also possible to visit the places in overtime period at
weekends.
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ANTANDROS,
It was
appeared on the west sides of Kaletepe where is located on the
southern foods of İda Mountain, on the north of Edremit Gulf,
when they were working on road construction on the 3rd km of
Edremit-Altinoluk highway.
Strabon, who was a famous geographer in old times, mentioned
Antandros as a city on Adramyttenas Gulf. Vergillius also
dated back this city’s history to Troyan Wars. Vergillius,
telling about Troyan War with its details and mentioning about
Antandros, he expressed that the timbers made from the trees
in İda Mountain were used for ship construction and its
famous to have been spread to the antique world..
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Pergamon (BERGAMA), which is one of the
important cities of Mysia region, begins from the foots
of the hill, where is located acropolis, extends to the plain.
The ground, whose fertility increased by Selinos(Pergamon) and
Kestel(Keitos) Streams running from the two sides of the hill,
located Acropolis, into Bakırçay (Kalkos) River, provided it
to be one of the favourite cities of Antique Period. The city,
aparted two by Pergamon Stream(Selinos), with the natural
sources and the plains around the streams is now extended
until where is now called Musalla Cemetery. The acropolis’s
sharp shoulders 392.3 m. high aren’t affected by the
immigration in terms of the city is away from the sea. However
being nearer to Pitane(Çandarli) and Dikili Gulf, it’s also
connected with The King Road by the road following Kaiko
Valley in the west, reaching to Akhisar(Thyateria) and this
used the city for its importance
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