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How One Organization Changed My Life and My Practice
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Hobbies to Take With You on Vacation
Pow! The Lost Legend of Rice Krispies’ Space Age Mascot
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Baked Sausage With Apples and Fennel
Foods to Embrace and Avoid to Calm Your Anxiety
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Exploring Turkey’s Underground City
JOURNEY BENEATH THE SURFACE The Fascinating Underground City of Derinkuyu
When you hear the word “turkey,” you probably think of a large bird with a scaley redneck associated with Thanksgiving feasts nationwide. What you may not immediately think of is the historic nation of Turkey, officially known as the Republic of Türkiye, on the geographic and cultural border of Europe and Asia, straddling the Mediterranean and Black seas. The country was once the
size and over 600 entrances scattered around its labyrinthine network of underground homes, granaries, stables, and religious structures, a local chicken farmer only rediscovered it in 1963. As the story goes, the chicken farmer kept losing his chickens to a small crevice near his home, from which
they would never emerge. After digging, the farmer discovered a passageway, one of the many lost entryways leading to Derinkuyu. Mysterious Origin No one knows precisely when Derinkuyu was constructed. Some theories say the ancient Hittites could have built it during the Bronze Age. However, whoever originally started the city did not expand it to its current sprawling dimensions.
center of the great Ottoman Empire, which existed for over six centuries and encompassed much of Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
But long before the Ottomans ruled this land, thousands lived underground in the fantastical city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu. Unearthing Derinkuyu Derinkuyu is more than 275 feet beneath the surface of the volcanic region of Cappadocia Valley in modern-day Turkey. At one point, this gargantuan, cavernous city accommodated up to 20,000 people. Despite its massive
The Phyrgians later inherited the city in the Iron Age and expanded it to accommodate their larger population. Whatever the whole story, one thing remains true: A remarkable, mysterious city with cavernous confines is just begging to be explored.
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