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Cappadocia

Cappadocia or Capadocia (/kæpəˈdʃəˌ -ˈdkiə/; Turkish: Kapadokya), is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It largely is in the provinces Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde.

Cappadocia
Ancient region of Central Anatolia Region, Turkey
Clockwise from top: Ortahisar Castle, View of Uçhisar Castle, Mount Erciyes, Rose Valley, Ihlara Valley, Göreme Open Air Museum, Aerial view over Cappadocia
Cappadocia among the classical regions of Anatolia (Asia Minor)
Coordinates: Coordinates: 38°39′30″N 34°51′13″E / 38.65833°N 34.85361°E / 38.65833; 34.85361
Persian satrapyKatpatuka
Roman provinceCappadocia
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
UNESCO World Heritage Site
IncludesGöreme National Park, Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu underground city
CriteriaCultural: i, iii, v; Natural: vii
Reference357
Inscription1985 (9th Session)
Area9,883.81 ha

According to Herodotus,[1] in the time of the Ionian Revolt (499 BC), the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia.[2]

The name, traditionally used in Christian sources throughout history, continues in use as an international tourism concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders, in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique historical and cultural heritage.

Etymology

 
Cappadocia landscape
 
Facade of an ancient church called Açik Saray, literally meaning "Open Palace", carved into the valley walls in Gülşehir, Cappadocia.

The earliest record of the name of Cappadocia (/kæpəˈdʃəˌ -ˈdkiə/; also Capadocia; Turkish: Kapadokya; Greek: Καππαδοκία Kappadokía, Syriac: ܩܦܘܕܩܝܐ Qppdqyʾ, from Old Persian: 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka; Hittite: 𒅗𒋫𒁉𒁕 Hatti; Armenian: Կապադովկիա, Գամիրք[citation needed], romanizedKapadovkia, Gamirk') dates from the late 6th century BC, when it appears in the trilingual inscriptions of two early Achaemenid kings, Darius I and Xerxes, as one of the countries (Old Persian dahyu-) of the Persian Empire. In these lists of countries, the Old Persian name is Katpatuka. It was proposed that Kat-patuka came from the Luwian language, meaning "Low Country".[3] Subsequent research suggests that the adverb katta meaning 'down, below' is exclusively Hittite, while its Luwian equivalent is zanta.[4] Therefore, the recent modification of this proposal operates with the Hittite katta peda-, literally "place below" as a starting point for the development of the toponym Cappadocia.[5] The earlier derivation from Iranian Hu-apa-dahyu 'Land of good horses' can hardly be reconciled with the phonetic shape of Kat-patuka. A number of other etymologies have also been offered in the past.[6]

Herodotus wrote that the name of the Cappadocians was applied to them by the Persians, while they were termed by the Greeks "White Syrians" (Leucosyri),[7] who were most probably descendants of the Hittites.[8] One of the Cappadocian tribes he mentions is the Moschoi, associated by Flavius Josephus with the biblical figure Meshech, son of Japheth: "and the Mosocheni were founded by Mosoch; now they are Cappadocians". AotJ I:6.

 
Fresco of Christ Pantocrator on the ceiling of Karanlık Kilise Churches of Göreme.
 
Another fresco of Christ Pantocrator on the cross at Karanlık Kilise Churches of Göreme.

Cappadocia appears in the biblical account given in the book of Acts 2:9. The Cappadocians were named as one group (among "Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia")[9] hearing the Gospel account from Galileans in their own language on the day of Pentecost shortly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Acts 2:5 states "Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven," seeming to suggest that some of the Cappadocians were Jews, or part of the diaspora of Jews present in Jerusalem at the time.[9]

The region is also mentioned in the Jewish Mishnah, in Ketubot 13:11, and in several places in the Talmud, including Yevamot 121a.

Under the later kings of the Persian Empire, the Cappadocians were divided into two satrapies, or governments, with one comprising the central and inland portion, to which the name of Cappadocia continued to be applied by Greek geographers, while the other was called Pontus. This division had already come about before the time of Xenophon. As after the fall of the Persian government the two provinces continued to be separate, the distinction was perpetuated, and the name Cappadocia came to be restricted to the inland province (sometimes called Great Cappadocia), which alone will be the focus of this article.[10]

The kingdom of Cappadocia still existed in the time of Strabo (c. 64 BC – c. AD 24 ) as a nominally independent state. Cilicia was the name given to the district in which Caesarea, the capital of the whole country, was situated. The only two cities of Cappadocia considered by Strabo to deserve that appellation were Caesarea (originally known as Mazaca) and Tyana, not far from the foot of the Taurus.[11]

Geography and climate

 
Fairy chimneys in Uçhisar, Cappadocia.
 
Fairy Chimneys rock formation near Göreme, in Cappadocia

Cappadocia lies in eastern Anatolia, in the heartland of what is now Turkey. The relief consists of a high plateau over 1000 m in altitude that is pierced by volcanic peaks, with Mount Erciyes (ancient Argaeus) near Kayseri (ancient Caesarea) being the tallest at 3916 m. The boundaries of historical Cappadocia are vague, particularly towards the west. To the south, the Taurus Mountains form the boundary with Cilicia and separate Cappadocia from the Mediterranean Sea. To the west, Cappadocia is bounded by the historical regions of Lycaonia to the southwest, and Galatia to the northwest. Due to its inland location and high altitude, Cappadocia has a markedly continental climate, with hot dry summers and cold snowy winters.[12] Rainfall is sparse and the region is largely semi-arid.

Cappadocia contained the sources of the Sarus and Pyramus rivers with their higher affluents, and also the middle course of the Halys, and the whole course of the tributary of the Euphrates later called Tokhma Su. But as no one of these rivers was navigable or served to fertilize the lands along its course, none has much importance in the history of the province.[11]

Geology

Ignimbrites of Miocene age are present within the area.

IUGS geological heritage site

In respect of the 'voluminous eruption deposits in a fluvio-lacustrine sequence with 'fairy-chimney' development produced by uplift and erosion', the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) included 'The Miocene Cappadocian ignimbrites sequence' in its assemblage of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022. The organisation defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as 'a key place with geological elements and/or processes of international scientific relevance, used as a reference, and/or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history.'[13]

History

Achaemenid Cappadocia
 
Cappadocian soldier of the Achaemenid army circa 470 BC. Xerxes I tomb relief.
 
Location of Achaemenid Cappadocia.[14]

Cappadocia was known as Hatti in the late Bronze Age, and was the homeland of the Hittite power centred at Hattusa. After the fall of the Hittite Empire, with the decline of the Syro-Cappadocians (Mushki) after their defeat by the Lydian king Croesus in the 6th century BC, Cappadocia was ruled by a sort of feudal aristocracy, dwelling in strong castles and keeping the peasants in a servile condition, which later made them apt to foreign slavery. It was included in the third Persian satrapy in the division established by Darius but continued to be governed by rulers of its own, none apparently supreme over the whole country and all more or less tributaries of the Great King.[11][15][16]

Kingdom of Cappadocia

After ending the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great tried to rule the area through one of his military commanders. But Ariarathes, previously satrap of the region, declared himself king of the Cappadocians. As Ariarathes I (332–322 BC), he was a successful ruler, and he extended the borders of the Cappadocian Kingdom as far as to the Black Sea. The kingdom of Cappadocia lived in peace until the death of Alexander. The previous empire was then divided into many parts, and Cappadocia fell to Eumenes. His claims were made good in 322 BC by the regent Perdiccas, who crucified Ariarathes; but in the dissensions which brought about Eumenes's death, Ariarathes II, the adopted son of Ariarathes I, recovered his inheritance and left it to a line of successors, who mostly bore the name of the founder of the dynasty.[11]

Persian colonists in the Cappadocian kingdom, cut off from their co-religionists in Iran proper, continued to practice Zoroastrianism. Strabo, observing them in the first century BC, records (XV.3.15) that these "fire kindlers" possessed many "holy places of the Persian Gods", as well as fire temples.[17] Strabo furthermore relates, were "noteworthy enclosures; and in their midst there is an altar, on which there is a large quantity of ashes and where the magi keep the fire ever burning."[17] According to Strabo, who wrote during the time of Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14), almost three hundred years after the fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, there remained only traces of Persians in western Asia Minor; however, he considered Cappadocia "almost a living part of Persia".[18]

Under Ariarathes IV, Cappadocia came into relations with Rome, first as a foe espousing the cause of Antiochus the Great, then as an ally against Perseus of Macedon. The kings henceforward threw in their lot with the Republic as against the Seleucids, to whom they had been from time to time tributary. Ariarathes V marched with the Roman proconsul Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus against Aristonicus, a claimant to the throne of Pergamon, and their forces were annihilated (130 BC). The imbroglio which followed his death ultimately led to interference by the rising power of Pontus and the intrigues and wars which ended in the failure of the dynasty.[11][19]

Roman and Byzantine province

 
Ancient city of Tyana, Cappadocia

The Cappadocians, supported by Rome against Mithridates VI of Pontus, elected a native lord, Ariobarzanes, to succeed (93 BC); but in the same year Armenian troops under Tigranes the Great entered Cappadocia, dethroned king Ariobarzanes and crowned Gordios as the new client-king of Cappadocia, thus creating a buffer zone against the encroaching Romans. It was not until Rome had deposed the Pontic and Armenian kings that the rule of Ariobarzanes was established (63 BC). In the civil wars Cappadocia was first for Pompey, then for Caesar, then for Antony, and finally, Octavian. The Ariobarzanes dynasty came to an end, a Cappadocian nobleman Archelaus was given the throne, by favour first of Antony and then of Octavian, and maintained tributary independence until AD 17, when the emperor Tiberius, whom he had angered, summoned him to Rome and reduced Cappadocia to a Roman province.[20]

In 70 AD, Vespasian joined Armenia Minor to Cappadocia, and made the combined province a frontier bulwark. It remained, under various provincial redistributions, part of the Eastern Empire for centuries.[21]

Cappadocia contains several underground cities (see Kaymaklı Underground City). The underground cities have vast defence networks of traps throughout their many levels. These traps are very creative, including such devices as large round stones to block doors and holes in the ceiling through which the defenders may drop spears.

Early Christian and Byzantine periods

 
Ceiling fresco in Daniel Pantonassa Church, Ihlara Valley.
 
Frescoes in Saint John's Church, in Gülşehir, dated by an inscription to 1212.

In 314, Cappadocia was the largest province of the Roman Empire, and was part of the Diocese of Pontus.[22] The region suffered famine in 368 described as "the most severe ever remembered" by Gregory of Nazianzus:

The city was in distress and there was no source of assistance...The hardest part of all such distress is the insensibility and insatiability of those who possess supplies...Such are the buyers and sellers of corn ... by his word and advice [basil] open the stores of those who possessed them, and so, according to the Scripture, dealt food to the hungry and satisfied the poor with bread...He gathered together the victims of the famine...and obtaining contributions of all sorts of food which can relieve famine, set before them basins of soup and such meat as was found preserved among us, on which the poor live...Such was our young furnisher of corn, and second Joseph...[But unlike Joseph, Basil's] services were gratuitous and his succour of the famine gained no profit, having only one object, to win kindly feelings by kindly treatment, and to gain by his rations of corn the heavenly blessings".[23]

This is similar to another account by Gregory of Nyssa that Basil "ungrudgingly spent upon the poor his patriomny even before he was a priest, and most of all in the time of the famine, during which [Basil] was a ruler of the Church, though still a priest in the rank of presbyters; and afterwards did not hoard even what remained to him".[23]

In 371, the western part of the Cappadocia province was divided into Cappadocia Prima, with its capital at Caesarea (modern-day Kayseri); and Cappadocia Secunda, with its capital at Tyana.[22] By 386, the region to the east of Caesarea had become part of Armenia Secunda, while the northeast had become part of Armenia Prima.[22] Cappadocia largely consisted of major estates, owned by the Roman emperors or wealthy local families.[22] The Cappadocian provinces became more important in the latter part of the 4th century, as the Romans were involved with the Sasanian Empire over control of Mesopotamia and "Armenia beyond the Euphrates".[22] Cappadocia, now well into the Roman era, still retained a significant Iranian character; Stephen Mitchell notes in the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity: "Many inhabitants of Cappadocia were of Persian descent and Iranian fire worship is attested as late as 465".[22]

The Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century were integral to much of early Christian philosophy. It also produced, among other people, another Patriarch of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia, who held office 517–520. For most of the Byzantine era it remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts in the area with the Sassanid Empire, but was a vital frontier zone later against the Muslim conquests. From the 7th century, Cappadocia was divided between the Anatolic and Armeniac themes. In the 9th–11th centuries, the region comprised the themes of Charsianon and Cappadocia.

 
Frescos inside Tokali Kilise, "Church of the Buckle".

Cappadocia shared an always-changing relationship with neighbouring Armenia, by that time a region of the Empire. The Arab historian Abu Al Faraj asserts the following about Armenian settlers in Sivas, during the 10th century: "Sivas, in Cappadocia, was dominated by the Armenians and their numbers became so many that they became vital members of the imperial armies. These Armenians were used as watch-posts in strong fortresses, taken from the Arabs. They distinguished themselves as experienced infantry soldiers in the imperial army and were constantly fighting with outstanding courage and success by the side of the Romans".[24] As a result of the Byzantine military campaigns and the Seljuk invasion of Armenia, the Armenians spread into Cappadocia and eastward from Cilicia into the mountainous areas of northern Syria and Mesopotamia, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was eventually formed. This immigration was increased further after the decline of the local imperial power and the establishment of the Crusader States following the Fourth Crusade. To the crusaders, Cappadocia was "terra Hermeniorum," the land of the Armenians, due to the large number of Armenians settled there.[25]

Turkish Cappadocia

 
Cappadocia is famous for traditional cave hotels.

Following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, various Turkish clans under the leadership of the Seljuks began settling in Anatolia. With the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia, Cappadocia slowly became a tributary to the Turkish states that were established to the east and to the west; some of the native population converted to Islam[26] with the rest forming the remaining Cappadocian Greek population. By the end of the early 12th century, Anatolian Seljuks had established their sole dominance over the region. With the decline and the fall of the Konya-based Seljuks in the second half of the 13th century, they were gradually replaced by successive Turkic ruled states: the Karaman-based Beylik of Karaman and then the Ottoman Empire. Cappadocia remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1922, when it became part of the modern state of Turkey.

A fundamental change occurred in between when a new urban center, Nevşehir, was founded in the early 18th century by a grand vizier who was a native of the locality (Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha), to serve as regional capital, a role the city continues to assume to this day. In the meantime many former Cappadocians had shifted to a Turkish dialect (written in Greek alphabet, Karamanlıca), and where the Greek language was maintained (Sille, villages near Kayseri, Pharasa town and other nearby villages), it became heavily influenced by the surrounding Turkish. This dialect of Eastern Roman Greek is known as Cappadocian Greek. Following the foundation of Turkey in 1922, those who still identified with this pre-Islamic culture of Cappadocia were required to leave, so this language is now only spoken by a handful of their descendants, most now located in modern Greece.

Modern tourism

 
Hot-air ballooning is popular in Cappadocia.

The area is a popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic, and cultural features.

Touristic Cappadocia includes four cities: Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray and Niğde.

The region is located southwest of the major city Kayseri, which has airline and railway service to Ankara and Istanbul and other cities.

The most important towns and destinations in Cappadocia are Ürgüp, Göreme, Love Valley, Ihlara Valley, Selime, Guzelyurt, Uçhisar, Avanos and Zelve. Among the most visited underground cities are Derinkuyu, Kaymakli, Gaziemir and Ozkonak. The best historic mansions and cave houses for tourist stays are in Ürgüp, Göreme, Guzelyurt and Uçhisar.

 
Uchisar Kaya Hotel

Hot-air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Göreme. Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley, Monastery Valley (Guzelyurt), Ürgüp and Göreme.

Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately nine to three million years ago, during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs, underlie the Cappadocia region. The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. People of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out houses, churches and monasteries from the soft rocks of volcanic deposits. Göreme became a monastic centre in 300–1200 AD.

The first period of settlement in Göreme goes back to the Roman period. The Yusuf Koç, Ortahane, Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Göreme, and houses and churches carved into rocks in the Uzundere, Bağıldere and Zemi Valleys, all illustrate history and can be seen today. The Göreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia (see Churches of Göreme, Turkey) and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey. The complex contains more than 30 carved-from-rock churches and chapels, some having superb frescoes inside, dating from the ninth century to the eleventh century.

Mesothelioma

In 1975, a study of three small villages in central Cappadocia—Tuzköy, Karain and Sarıhıdır—found that mesothelioma was causing 50% of all deaths. Initially, this was attributed to erionite, a zeolite mineral with similar properties to asbestos, but detailed epidemiological investigation demonstrated that the substance causes the disease mostly in families with a genetic predisposition to mineral fiber carcinogenesis. The studies are being extended to other parts of the region.[27][28]

Media

A video showing all the different landscapes and terrain of Göreme and Cappadocia

The area was featured in several films due to its topography. The 1983 Italian/French/Turkish film Yor, the Hunter from the Future and 1985's Land of Doom were filmed in Cappadocia. The region was used for the 1989 science fiction film Slipstream to depict a cult of wind worshippers. In 2010 and early 2011, the film Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance was also filmed in the Cappadocia region.[29] Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea, based on the plot of Euripides' Medea, was filmed in Göreme Open Air Museum's early Christian churches.

Autechre's second album, Amber, features a photo of this region's fairy mountains as the cover art,[30] being their only album whose cover isn't computer-generated.

Cappadocia's winter landscapes and broad panoramas are prominent in the 2014 film Winter Sleep (Turkish: Kış Uykusu), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[31]

Sports

Since 2012, a multiday track running ultramarathon of desert concept, called Runfire Cappadocia Ultramarathon, is held annually in July. The race tours 244 km (152 mi) in six days through several places across Cappadocia reaching out to Lake Tuz.[32] Between September 9 and September 13, 2016, for the first time, the Turkish Presidential Bike Tour took place in Cappadocia where more than 300 cyclists from around the globe participated.[33]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ [Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, Chapter 49]
  2. ^ Van Dam, R. Kingdom of Snow: Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, p.13. [1]
  3. ^ Coindoz M. Archeologia / Préhistoire et archéologie, n°241, 1988, pp. 48–59
  4. ^ Petra Goedegebuure, "The Luwian Adverbs zanta 'down' and *ānni 'with, for, against'", Acts of the VIIIth International Congress of Hittitology, A. Süel (ed.), Ankara 2008, pp. 299–319.
  5. ^ Yakubovich, Ilya (2014). Kozuh, M. (ed.). "From Lower Land to Cappadocia". Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper. Chicago: Oriental Institute: 347–52.
  6. ^ See R. Schmitt, "Kappadoker", in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, vol. 5 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1980), p. 399, and L. Summerer, "Amisos – eine Griechische Polis im Land der Leukosyrer", in: M. Faudot et al. (eds.), Pont-Euxin et polis. Actes du Xe Symposium de Vani (2005), 129–66 [135] According to an older theory (W. Ruge, "Kappadokia", in A.F. Pauly – G. Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 10 (Stuttgart: Alfred Druckenmüller, 1919), col. 1911), the name derives from Old Persian and means either "land of the Ducha/Tucha" or "land of the beautiful horses". It has also been proposed that Katpatuka is a Persianized form of the Hittite name for Cilicia, Kizzuwatna, or that it is otherwise of Hittite or Luwian origin (by Tischler and Del Monte, mentioned in Schmitt (1980)). According to A. Room, Placenames of the World (London: MacFarland and Company, 1997), the name is a combination of Assyrian katpa "side" (cf. Heb katef) and a chief or ancestor's name, Tuka.
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  8. ^ Janse, Mark (2009). "The resurrection of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ a b "Acts 2 NIV". biblehub.com. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
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  11. ^ a b c d e Bunbury & Hogarth 1911, p. 287.
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  14. ^ Map of the Achaemenid Empire
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  18. ^ Raditsa 1983, p. 107.
  19. ^ The coinage of Cappadocian kings was quite extensive and produced by highest standards of the time. See Asia Minor Coins – regal Cappadocian coins
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  21. ^ Bunbury & Hogarth 1911, p. 288.
  22. ^ a b c d e f Mitchell 2018, p. 290.
  23. ^ a b The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia by Susan R. Holman
  24. ^ Schlumberger, Un Emperor byzantin au X siècle, Paris, Nicéphore Phocas, Paris, 1890, p. 251
  25. ^ MacEvitt, Christopher (2008). The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780812240504.
  26. ^ Vryonis, Speros (1971). The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-52-001597-5.
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For other uses see Cappadocia disambiguation and Cappadocian disambiguation Cappadocia or Capadocia k ae p e ˈ d oʊ ʃ e ˌ ˈ d oʊ k i e Turkish Kapadokya is a historical region in Central Anatolia Turkey It largely is in the provinces Nevsehir Kayseri Aksaray Kirsehir Sivas and Nigde CappadociaAncient region of Central Anatolia Region TurkeyClockwise from top Ortahisar Castle View of Uchisar Castle Mount Erciyes Rose Valley Ihlara Valley Goreme Open Air Museum Aerial view over CappadociaCappadocia among the classical regions of Anatolia Asia Minor Coordinates Coordinates 38 39 30 N 34 51 13 E 38 65833 N 34 85361 E 38 65833 34 85361Persian satrapyKatpatukaRoman provinceCappadociaGoreme National Park and the Rock Sites of CappadociaUNESCO World Heritage SiteIncludesGoreme National Park Kaymakli Underground City Derinkuyu underground cityCriteriaCultural i iii v Natural viiReference357Inscription1985 9th Session Area9 883 81 haAccording to Herodotus 1 in the time of the Ionian Revolt 499 BC the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine Black Sea Cappadocia in this sense was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia to the east by the upper Euphrates to the north by Pontus and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia 2 The name traditionally used in Christian sources throughout history continues in use as an international tourism concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique historical and cultural heritage Contents 1 Etymology 2 Geography and climate 3 Geology 3 1 IUGS geological heritage site 4 History 4 1 Kingdom of Cappadocia 4 2 Roman and Byzantine province 4 3 Early Christian and Byzantine periods 4 4 Turkish Cappadocia 5 Modern tourism 6 Mesothelioma 7 Media 8 Sports 9 Gallery 10 See also 11 References 12 Sources 13 External linksEtymology Edit Cappadocia landscape Facade of an ancient church called Acik Saray literally meaning Open Palace carved into the valley walls in Gulsehir Cappadocia The earliest record of the name of Cappadocia k ae p e ˈ d oʊ ʃ e ˌ ˈ d oʊ k i e also Capadocia Turkish Kapadokya Greek Kappadokia Kappadokia Syriac ܩܦܘܕܩܝܐ Qppdqyʾ from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka Hittite 𒅗𒋫𒁉𒁕 Hatti Armenian Կապադովկիա Գամիրք citation needed romanized Kapadovkia Gamirk dates from the late 6th century BC when it appears in the trilingual inscriptions of two early Achaemenid kings Darius I and Xerxes as one of the countries Old Persian dahyu of the Persian Empire In these lists of countries the Old Persian name is Katpatuka It was proposed that Kat patuka came from the Luwian language meaning Low Country 3 Subsequent research suggests that the adverb katta meaning down below is exclusively Hittite while its Luwian equivalent is zanta 4 Therefore the recent modification of this proposal operates with the Hittite katta peda literally place below as a starting point for the development of the toponym Cappadocia 5 The earlier derivation from Iranian Hu apa dahyu Land of good horses can hardly be reconciled with the phonetic shape of Kat patuka A number of other etymologies have also been offered in the past 6 Herodotus wrote that the name of the Cappadocians was applied to them by the Persians while they were termed by the Greeks White Syrians Leucosyri 7 who were most probably descendants of the Hittites 8 One of the Cappadocian tribes he mentions is the Moschoi associated by Flavius Josephus with the biblical figure Meshech son of Japheth and the Mosocheni were founded by Mosoch now they are Cappadocians AotJ I 6 Fresco of Christ Pantocrator on the ceiling of Karanlik Kilise Churches of Goreme Another fresco of Christ Pantocrator on the cross at Karanlik Kilise Churches of Goreme Cappadocia appears in the biblical account given in the book of Acts 2 9 The Cappadocians were named as one group among Parthians Medes and Elamites residents of Mesopotamia Judea and Cappadocia Pontus and Asia 9 hearing the Gospel account from Galileans in their own language on the day of Pentecost shortly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ Acts 2 5 states Now there were staying in Jerusalem God fearing Jews from every nation under heaven seeming to suggest that some of the Cappadocians were Jews or part of the diaspora of Jews present in Jerusalem at the time 9 The region is also mentioned in the Jewish Mishnah in Ketubot 13 11 and in several places in the Talmud including Yevamot 121a Under the later kings of the Persian Empire the Cappadocians were divided into two satrapies or governments with one comprising the central and inland portion to which the name of Cappadocia continued to be applied by Greek geographers while the other was called Pontus This division had already come about before the time of Xenophon As after the fall of the Persian government the two provinces continued to be separate the distinction was perpetuated and the name Cappadocia came to be restricted to the inland province sometimes called Great Cappadocia which alone will be the focus of this article 10 The kingdom of Cappadocia still existed in the time of Strabo c 64 BC c AD 24 as a nominally independent state Cilicia was the name given to the district in which Caesarea the capital of the whole country was situated The only two cities of Cappadocia considered by Strabo to deserve that appellation were Caesarea originally known as Mazaca and Tyana not far from the foot of the Taurus 11 Geography and climate Edit Fairy chimneys in Uchisar Cappadocia Fairy Chimneys rock formation near Goreme in Cappadocia Cappadocia lies in eastern Anatolia in the heartland of what is now Turkey The relief consists of a high plateau over 1000 m in altitude that is pierced by volcanic peaks with Mount Erciyes ancient Argaeus near Kayseri ancient Caesarea being the tallest at 3916 m The boundaries of historical Cappadocia are vague particularly towards the west To the south the Taurus Mountains form the boundary with Cilicia and separate Cappadocia from the Mediterranean Sea To the west Cappadocia is bounded by the historical regions of Lycaonia to the southwest and Galatia to the northwest Due to its inland location and high altitude Cappadocia has a markedly continental climate with hot dry summers and cold snowy winters 12 Rainfall is sparse and the region is largely semi arid Cappadocia contained the sources of the Sarus and Pyramus rivers with their higher affluents and also the middle course of the Halys and the whole course of the tributary of the Euphrates later called Tokhma Su But as no one of these rivers was navigable or served to fertilize the lands along its course none has much importance in the history of the province 11 Geology EditIgnimbrites of Miocene age are present within the area IUGS geological heritage site Edit In respect of the voluminous eruption deposits in a fluvio lacustrine sequence with fairy chimney development produced by uplift and erosion the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGS included The Miocene Cappadocian ignimbrites sequence in its assemblage of 100 geological heritage sites around the world in a listing published in October 2022 The organisation defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as a key place with geological elements and or processes of international scientific relevance used as a reference and or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history 13 History EditSee also Cappadocia satrapy and List of rulers of Cappadocia Achaemenid Cappadocia Cappadocian soldier of the Achaemenid army circa 470 BC Xerxes I tomb relief Location of Achaemenid Cappadocia 14 Cappadocia was known as Hatti in the late Bronze Age and was the homeland of the Hittite power centred at Hattusa After the fall of the Hittite Empire with the decline of the Syro Cappadocians Mushki after their defeat by the Lydian king Croesus in the 6th century BC Cappadocia was ruled by a sort of feudal aristocracy dwelling in strong castles and keeping the peasants in a servile condition which later made them apt to foreign slavery It was included in the third Persian satrapy in the division established by Darius but continued to be governed by rulers of its own none apparently supreme over the whole country and all more or less tributaries of the Great King 11 15 16 Kingdom of Cappadocia Edit Main article Kingdom of Cappadocia After ending the Persian Empire Alexander the Great tried to rule the area through one of his military commanders But Ariarathes previously satrap of the region declared himself king of the Cappadocians As Ariarathes I 332 322 BC he was a successful ruler and he extended the borders of the Cappadocian Kingdom as far as to the Black Sea The kingdom of Cappadocia lived in peace until the death of Alexander The previous empire was then divided into many parts and Cappadocia fell to Eumenes His claims were made good in 322 BC by the regent Perdiccas who crucified Ariarathes but in the dissensions which brought about Eumenes s death Ariarathes II the adopted son of Ariarathes I recovered his inheritance and left it to a line of successors who mostly bore the name of the founder of the dynasty 11 Persian colonists in the Cappadocian kingdom cut off from their co religionists in Iran proper continued to practice Zoroastrianism Strabo observing them in the first century BC records XV 3 15 that these fire kindlers possessed many holy places of the Persian Gods as well as fire temples 17 Strabo furthermore relates were noteworthy enclosures and in their midst there is an altar on which there is a large quantity of ashes and where the magi keep the fire ever burning 17 According to Strabo who wrote during the time of Augustus r 27 BC AD 14 almost three hundred years after the fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire there remained only traces of Persians in western Asia Minor however he considered Cappadocia almost a living part of Persia 18 Under Ariarathes IV Cappadocia came into relations with Rome first as a foe espousing the cause of Antiochus the Great then as an ally against Perseus of Macedon The kings henceforward threw in their lot with the Republic as against the Seleucids to whom they had been from time to time tributary Ariarathes V marched with the Roman proconsul Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus against Aristonicus a claimant to the throne of Pergamon and their forces were annihilated 130 BC The imbroglio which followed his death ultimately led to interference by the rising power of Pontus and the intrigues and wars which ended in the failure of the dynasty 11 19 Roman and Byzantine province Edit Main article Cappadocia Roman province Ancient city of Tyana Cappadocia King Orophernes of Cappadocia The Cappadocians supported by Rome against Mithridates VI of Pontus elected a native lord Ariobarzanes to succeed 93 BC but in the same year Armenian troops under Tigranes the Great entered Cappadocia dethroned king Ariobarzanes and crowned Gordios as the new client king of Cappadocia thus creating a buffer zone against the encroaching Romans It was not until Rome had deposed the Pontic and Armenian kings that the rule of Ariobarzanes was established 63 BC In the civil wars Cappadocia was first for Pompey then for Caesar then for Antony and finally Octavian The Ariobarzanes dynasty came to an end a Cappadocian nobleman Archelaus was given the throne by favour first of Antony and then of Octavian and maintained tributary independence until AD 17 when the emperor Tiberius whom he had angered summoned him to Rome and reduced Cappadocia to a Roman province 20 In 70 AD Vespasian joined Armenia Minor to Cappadocia and made the combined province a frontier bulwark It remained under various provincial redistributions part of the Eastern Empire for centuries 21 Cappadocia contains several underground cities see Kaymakli Underground City The underground cities have vast defence networks of traps throughout their many levels These traps are very creative including such devices as large round stones to block doors and holes in the ceiling through which the defenders may drop spears Early Christian and Byzantine periods Edit Ceiling fresco in Daniel Pantonassa Church Ihlara Valley Frescoes in Saint John s Church in Gulsehir dated by an inscription to 1212 In 314 Cappadocia was the largest province of the Roman Empire and was part of the Diocese of Pontus 22 The region suffered famine in 368 described as the most severe ever remembered by Gregory of Nazianzus The city was in distress and there was no source of assistance The hardest part of all such distress is the insensibility and insatiability of those who possess supplies Such are the buyers and sellers of corn by his word and advice basil open the stores of those who possessed them and so according to the Scripture dealt food to the hungry and satisfied the poor with bread He gathered together the victims of the famine and obtaining contributions of all sorts of food which can relieve famine set before them basins of soup and such meat as was found preserved among us on which the poor live Such was our young furnisher of corn and second Joseph But unlike Joseph Basil s services were gratuitous and his succour of the famine gained no profit having only one object to win kindly feelings by kindly treatment and to gain by his rations of corn the heavenly blessings 23 This is similar to another account by Gregory of Nyssa that Basil ungrudgingly spent upon the poor his patriomny even before he was a priest and most of all in the time of the famine during which Basil was a ruler of the Church though still a priest in the rank of presbyters and afterwards did not hoard even what remained to him 23 In 371 the western part of the Cappadocia province was divided into Cappadocia Prima with its capital at Caesarea modern day Kayseri and Cappadocia Secunda with its capital at Tyana 22 By 386 the region to the east of Caesarea had become part of Armenia Secunda while the northeast had become part of Armenia Prima 22 Cappadocia largely consisted of major estates owned by the Roman emperors or wealthy local families 22 The Cappadocian provinces became more important in the latter part of the 4th century as the Romans were involved with the Sasanian Empire over control of Mesopotamia and Armenia beyond the Euphrates 22 Cappadocia now well into the Roman era still retained a significant Iranian character Stephen Mitchell notes in the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity Many inhabitants of Cappadocia were of Persian descent and Iranian fire worship is attested as late as 465 22 The Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century were integral to much of early Christian philosophy It also produced among other people another Patriarch of Constantinople John of Cappadocia who held office 517 520 For most of the Byzantine era it remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts in the area with the Sassanid Empire but was a vital frontier zone later against the Muslim conquests From the 7th century Cappadocia was divided between the Anatolic and Armeniac themes In the 9th 11th centuries the region comprised the themes of Charsianon and Cappadocia Frescos inside Tokali Kilise Church of the Buckle Cappadocia shared an always changing relationship with neighbouring Armenia by that time a region of the Empire The Arab historian Abu Al Faraj asserts the following about Armenian settlers in Sivas during the 10th century Sivas in Cappadocia was dominated by the Armenians and their numbers became so many that they became vital members of the imperial armies These Armenians were used as watch posts in strong fortresses taken from the Arabs They distinguished themselves as experienced infantry soldiers in the imperial army and were constantly fighting with outstanding courage and success by the side of the Romans 24 As a result of the Byzantine military campaigns and the Seljuk invasion of Armenia the Armenians spread into Cappadocia and eastward from Cilicia into the mountainous areas of northern Syria and Mesopotamia and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was eventually formed This immigration was increased further after the decline of the local imperial power and the establishment of the Crusader States following the Fourth Crusade To the crusaders Cappadocia was terra Hermeniorum the land of the Armenians due to the large number of Armenians settled there 25 Turkish Cappadocia Edit Cappadocia is famous for traditional cave hotels Following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 various Turkish clans under the leadership of the Seljuks began settling in Anatolia With the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia Cappadocia slowly became a tributary to the Turkish states that were established to the east and to the west some of the native population converted to Islam 26 with the rest forming the remaining Cappadocian Greek population By the end of the early 12th century Anatolian Seljuks had established their sole dominance over the region With the decline and the fall of the Konya based Seljuks in the second half of the 13th century they were gradually replaced by successive Turkic ruled states the Karaman based Beylik of Karaman and then the Ottoman Empire Cappadocia remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1922 when it became part of the modern state of Turkey A fundamental change occurred in between when a new urban center Nevsehir was founded in the early 18th century by a grand vizier who was a native of the locality Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha to serve as regional capital a role the city continues to assume to this day In the meantime many former Cappadocians had shifted to a Turkish dialect written in Greek alphabet Karamanlica and where the Greek language was maintained Sille villages near Kayseri Pharasa town and other nearby villages it became heavily influenced by the surrounding Turkish This dialect of Eastern Roman Greek is known as Cappadocian Greek Following the foundation of Turkey in 1922 those who still identified with this pre Islamic culture of Cappadocia were required to leave so this language is now only spoken by a handful of their descendants most now located in modern Greece Modern tourism Edit Hot air ballooning is popular in Cappadocia The area is a popular tourist destination as it has many areas with unique geological historic and cultural features Touristic Cappadocia includes four cities Nevsehir Kayseri Aksaray and Nigde The region is located southwest of the major city Kayseri which has airline and railway service to Ankara and Istanbul and other cities The most important towns and destinations in Cappadocia are Urgup Goreme Love Valley Ihlara Valley Selime Guzelyurt Uchisar Avanos and Zelve Among the most visited underground cities are Derinkuyu Kaymakli Gaziemir and Ozkonak The best historic mansions and cave houses for tourist stays are in Urgup Goreme Guzelyurt and Uchisar Uchisar Kaya Hotel Hot air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Goreme Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley Monastery Valley Guzelyurt Urgup and Goreme Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately nine to three million years ago during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs underlie the Cappadocia region The rocks of Cappadocia near Goreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret like forms People of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out houses churches and monasteries from the soft rocks of volcanic deposits Goreme became a monastic centre in 300 1200 AD The first period of settlement in Goreme goes back to the Roman period The Yusuf Koc Ortahane Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Goreme and houses and churches carved into rocks in the Uzundere Bagildere and Zemi Valleys all illustrate history and can be seen today The Goreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia see Churches of Goreme Turkey and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey The complex contains more than 30 carved from rock churches and chapels some having superb frescoes inside dating from the ninth century to the eleventh century Mesothelioma EditIn 1975 a study of three small villages in central Cappadocia Tuzkoy Karain and Sarihidir found that mesothelioma was causing 50 of all deaths Initially this was attributed to erionite a zeolite mineral with similar properties to asbestos but detailed epidemiological investigation demonstrated that the substance causes the disease mostly in families with a genetic predisposition to mineral fiber carcinogenesis The studies are being extended to other parts of the region 27 28 Media Edit source source source source source source source source source source source source source source source source A video showing all the different landscapes and terrain of Goreme and Cappadocia The area was featured in several films due to its topography The 1983 Italian French Turkish film Yor the Hunter from the Future and 1985 s Land of Doom were filmed in Cappadocia The region was used for the 1989 science fiction film Slipstream to depict a cult of wind worshippers In 2010 and early 2011 the film Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance was also filmed in the Cappadocia region 29 Pier Paolo Pasolini s Medea based on the plot of Euripides Medea was filmed in Goreme Open Air Museum s early Christian churches Autechre s second album Amber features a photo of this region s fairy mountains as the cover art 30 being their only album whose cover isn t computer generated Cappadocia s winter landscapes and broad panoramas are prominent in the 2014 film Winter Sleep Turkish Kis Uykusu directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan which won the Palme d Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival 31 Sports EditSince 2012 a multiday track running ultramarathon of desert concept called Runfire Cappadocia Ultramarathon is held annually in July The race tours 244 km 152 mi in six days through several places across Cappadocia reaching out to Lake Tuz 32 Between September 9 and September 13 2016 for the first time the Turkish Presidential Bike Tour took place in Cappadocia where more than 300 cyclists from around the globe participated 33 Gallery Edit Aerial view of the town Goreme Aerial view of Uchisar General view of Urgup Avanos Goreme Historical National Park The three beauties fairy chimneys in Urgup Pigeon Valley Aktepe White Hill near Goreme and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site Balloons taking off at sunrise Mt Erciyes 3916 m the highest mountain in Cappadocia View towards Guzelyurt Monastery Valley and Church Mosque Cappadocia traditional houses Decorated tree with Uchisar Castle in the background Horses roaming in Cappadocia rock cut architecture in Monks Valley Pasabag A rock cut church in Cappadocia Derinkuyu underground city Kaymakli underground city Cappadocian Greeks in traditional clothing Gumusler Monastery Courtyard in Nigde Canli Kilise meaning Bell Church in Aksaray Province Kizil Kilise meaning Red Church in Guzelyurt Doors of Mustafapasa Architectural style of AvanosSee also EditLove Valley Cappadocia Amaseia Ancient regions of Anatolia Cappadocian Fathers Cappadocian Greeks Cappadocia under the Achaemenids Kandovan Iran Gondrani Pakistan Khndzoresk Armenia List of colossal sculpture in situ List of traditional Greek place names Mokissos Tourism in Turkey UrgupReferences Edit Herodotus The Histories Book 5 Chapter 49 Van Dam R Kingdom of Snow Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 2002 p 13 1 Coindoz M Archeologia Prehistoire et archeologie n 241 1988 pp 48 59 Petra Goedegebuure The Luwian Adverbs zanta down and anni with for against Acts of the VIIIth International Congress of Hittitology A Suel ed Ankara 2008 pp 299 319 Yakubovich Ilya 2014 Kozuh M ed From Lower Land to Cappadocia Extraction and Control Studies in Honor of Matthew W Stolper Chicago Oriental Institute 347 52 See R Schmitt Kappadoker in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie vol 5 Berlin Walter de Gruyter 1980 p 399 and L Summerer Amisos eine Griechische Polis im Land der Leukosyrer in M Faudot et al eds Pont Euxin et polis Actes du Xe Symposium de Vani 2005 129 66 135 According to an older theory W Ruge Kappadokia in A F Pauly G Wissowa Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft vol 10 Stuttgart Alfred Druckenmuller 1919 col 1911 the name derives from Old Persian and means either land of the Ducha Tucha or land of the beautiful horses It has also been proposed that Katpatuka is a Persianized form of the Hittite name for Cilicia Kizzuwatna or that it is otherwise of Hittite or Luwian origin by Tischler and Del Monte mentioned in Schmitt 1980 According to A Room Placenames of the World London MacFarland and Company 1997 the name is a combination of Assyrian katpa side cf Heb katef and a chief or ancestor s name Tuka Bunbury amp Hogarth 1911 p 286 Janse Mark 2009 The resurrection of Cappadocian Asia Minor Greek a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b Acts 2 NIV biblehub com Retrieved 2022 11 02 Bunbury amp Hogarth 1911 pp 286 287 a b c d e Bunbury amp Hogarth 1911 p 287 Van Dam R Kingdom of Snow Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 2002 p 14 2 The First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites PDF IUGS International Commission on Geoheritage IUGS Retrieved 13 November 2022 Map of the Achaemenid Empire Evelpidou Niki Figueiredo Tomas Mauro Francesco Tecim Vahap Vassilopoulos Andreas 2010 01 19 Natural Heritage from East to West Case studies from 6 EU countries ISBN 9783642015779 Cappadocia Salomon Cappadocia cappadociaultratrail com Retrieved 2017 06 12 a b Mary Boyce Zoroastrians Their Religious Beliefs and Practices Psychology Press 2001 ISBN 978 0415239028 p 85 Raditsa 1983 p 107 The coinage of Cappadocian kings was quite extensive and produced by highest standards of the time See Asia Minor Coins regal Cappadocian coins Bunbury amp Hogarth 1911 pp 287 288 Bunbury amp Hogarth 1911 p 288 a b c d e f Mitchell 2018 p 290 a b The Hungry are Dying Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia by Susan R Holman Schlumberger Un Emperor byzantin au X siecle Paris Nicephore Phocas Paris 1890 p 251 MacEvitt Christopher 2008 The Crusades and the Christian World of the East Rough Tolerance Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press p 56 ISBN 9780812240504 Vryonis Speros 1971 The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century Berkeley CA University of California Press ISBN 978 0 52 001597 5 Dogan Umran 2003 Mesothelioma in Cappadocian villages Indoor and Built Environment Ankara Sage 12 6 367 75 doi 10 1177 1420326X03039065 ISSN 1420 326X S2CID 110334356 Carbone Michelle et al 2007 A mesothelioma epidemic in Cappadocia scientific developments and unexpected social outcomes Nature Reviews Cancer 7 2 147 54 doi 10 1038 nrc2068 ISSN 1474 175X PMID 17251920 S2CID 9440201 Cappadocia the Spirits of Vengeance Archived from the original on 2014 08 26 Retrieved 2012 06 18 Palladev George 9 February 2018 Autechre Amber Short story behind the artwork 12edit Retrieved 15 May 2019 Corliss Richard Winter Sleep Can a Three Hour Plus Prize Winner Be Just Pretty Good Time Retrieved 2017 08 15 Elite Athletes to run at The Runfire Cappadocia Istanbul Convention amp Visitors Bureau July 2013 Archived from the original on 2013 08 05 Retrieved 2013 11 28 VIDEO Bisiklet festivali basladi TRT Spor Turkiye nin guncel spor haber kaynagi Archived from the original on 2016 12 20 Retrieved 2016 12 14 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Bunbury Edward Herbert Hogarth David George 1911 Cappadocia In Chisholm Hugh ed Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 5 11th ed Cambridge University Press pp 286 288 Sources EditMitchell Stephen 2018 Cappadocia In Nicholson Oliver ed The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0192562463 Raditsa Leo 1983 Iranians in Asia Minor In Yarshater Ehsan ed The Cambridge History of Iran Vol 3 1 The Seleucid Parthian and Sasanian periods Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1139054942 Weiskopf Michael 1990 Cappadocia Encyclopaedia Iranica Vol IV Fasc 7 8 pp 780 86 Ene D Vasilescu Elena Shrines and Schools in Byzantine Cappadocia Journal of Early Christian History volume 9 Issue 1 2019 pp 1 29External links EditCappadocia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cappadocia Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Cappadocia Look up Cappadocia in Wiktionary the free dictionary Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cappadocia amp oldid 1132791050, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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