The Cappadocia region is the place where nature and history are the most beautifully integrated in the world. While geographical events have created fairy Chimneys, in the historical process, people have carved houses and churches into these fairy chimneys, decorated them with frescoes, and carried the traces of thousands of years of old civilizations to the present day. Strabo, one of the Ancient authors at the time of the Roman Emperor Augustus, states in his 17-book book Geographika (Anatolia XII, XIII, XIV) that the borders of the Cappadocia Region are a large region extending to the Taurus Mountains in the south, Aksaray in the west, Malatya in the east and the Eastern Black Sea coast in the north. Traditional Cappadocian houses and dovecotes carved into the rocks express the originality of the region. These houses are 19. in the XIII century, they were built on the slopes either of rocks or of cut stone.
The stone, which is the only architectural material of the region, can be processed very comfortably because it is soft after coming out of the January due to the volcanic structure of the region, but after contact with the air, it hardens and turns into a very durable building material.Due to the abundance of the material used and the ease of processing, the stonework, which is unique to the region, has developed and has become an architectural tradition. The material of both the courtyard and the house doors is wood.
The upper part of the arched doors is decorated with stylized ivy or rosette motifs.Pigeons in the region 19. the end of the century, the 18th. small buildings built in the XVIII century. Some of the dovecotes, which are important in terms of showing the Islamic art of painting, were built as monasteries or churches. The surface of the dovecotes are decorated with rich decorations and inscriptions by local artists.
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