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11 stories set in Turkey, including Ephesus, Anatolia, Halicarnassus (Bodrum), Şanlıurfa, Anatolia, Konya plain, Anatolia, Boğazkale, Anatolia, near Hattusa, Hisarlık, Anatolia, Adıyaman, Anatolia.

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Temple of Artemis at Ephesus: a world wonder of c. 550 BCE (World Wonder · Ephesus, Anatolia) — c. 550 BCE, Ephesus, Anatolia. Antipater of Sidon said the temple outshone Olympus: a forest of more than a hundred marble columns on a vast
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: a world wonder of c. 351 BCE (World Wonder · Halicarnassus (Bodrum)) — c. 351 BCE, Halicarnassus (Bodrum). Artemisia II buried Mausolus in a tomb so famous that “mausoleum” became the generic word for a grand bu
Göbekli Tepe: a world wonder of c. 9500 BCE (World Wonder · Şanlıurfa, Anatolia) — c. 9500 BCE, Şanlıurfa, Anatolia. T-shaped pillars with foxes, boars, and birds were raised by people who had not yet settled into full farm
Çatalhöyük: a world wonder of c. 7500 BCE (World Wonder · Konya plain, Anatolia) — c. 7500 BCE, Konya plain, Anatolia. A Neolithic town of rooftop streets and plastered houses packed like a honeycomb, with no streets at gro
Lion Gate of Hattusa: a world wonder of c. 1400 BCE (World Wonder · Boğazkale, Anatolia) — c. 1400 BCE, Boğazkale, Anatolia. The Hittite capital’s cyclopean walls opened through lions carved in the round, jaws ready, on a highland
Yazılıkaya sanctuary: a world wonder of c. 1250 BCE (World Wonder · near Hattusa) — c. 1250 BCE, near Hattusa. An open-air rock chapel where Hittite gods walk in two processions, labelled in Luwian, meeting at a weather-god
Citadel of Troy: a world wonder of c. 1700 BCE (World Wonder · Hisarlık, Anatolia) — c. 1700 BCE, Hisarlık, Anatolia. Troy VI–VIIa’s sloping walls and towers match a Late Bronze Age harbour kingdom that Homer later oversized
Mount Nemrut: a world wonder of c. 62 BCE (World Wonder · Adıyaman, Anatolia) — c. 62 BCE, Adıyaman, Anatolia. Antiochus I of Commagene stacked a 50-metre gravel tumulus and seated colossal gods who mix Zeus with Ahura M
Hagia Sophia: a world wonder of c. 537 CE (World Wonder · Istanbul, Türkiye) — c. 537 CE, Istanbul, Türkiye. Justinian’s church floated a 31-metre dome on pendentives — a geometry that made heaven look weightless over C
Sultan Ahmed Blue Mosque: a world wonder of c. 1616 CE (World Wonder · Istanbul, Türkiye) — c. 1616 CE, Istanbul, Türkiye. Six minarets and a cascade of domes facing Hagia Sophia — Iznik tiles making the interior a blue garden.
Topkapı Palace: a world wonder of c. 1465 CE (World Wonder · Istanbul, Türkiye) — c. 1465 CE, Istanbul, Türkiye. Ottoman sultans ruled from courtyards that feel like a city of pavilions rather than one blockhouse.

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