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	<title>Cappadocia Tour, カッパドキア ツアー</title>
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		<title>Protohittite and Assyrian Trade Colonies Periods ( 3000BC - 1750BC )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mining and metallurgy reached its peak in Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.  Major developments were observed in Northern Anatolia towards the end of this period.  
 						
Between 2000BC and 1750BC Assyrian merchants from northern Mesopotamia formed the first commercial organisations by establishing trade colonies in Anatolia. The centre of these colonies was at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/29/protohittite-and-assyrian-trade-colonies-periods-3000bc-1750bc/</link>
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		<title>HISTORY OF CAPPADOCIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 						 						Prehistoric Period
Traces of Prehistoric cultures in Cappadocia can most easily be found around Köskhöyük/Nigde, Asiklihöyük/Aksaray and in the Civelek cave near Nevsehir. Excavations in these three areas are still taking place. 						
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 Asikli Hoyuk (mound)
Archaeological excavations discovered the first brick living quarters in Cappadocia in Asikli  Höyük (mound), an extension of Aksaray&#8217;s Ihlara [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/28/history-of-cappadocia/</link>
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		<title>VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND GEOLOGICAL FORMATION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 						Mount Erciyes, Hasandagi and Golludag were active volcanoes in the geological periods. Alongside with many other volcanoes, eruptions of these volcanoes started in the Early Miocene (10 million years ago) and have continued until the present day.
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 The lava produced by these volcanoes, under the Neogene lakes, formed a layer of tufa on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/27/volcanic-eruptions-and-geological-formation/</link>
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		<title>Formation of Fairy Chimneys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 						The interesting rock formations, known as &#8220;fairy chimneys&#8221;, have been formed as the result of the erosion of this tufa layer, sculpted by wind and flood water, running down on the slopes of the valleys. Water has found its way through the valleys creating cracks and ruptures in the hard rock. The softer, easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/26/formation-of-fairy-chimneys/</link>
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		<title>Cappadocia Modern tourism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The area is a famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.
The region is southwest of the major city Kayseri, which has airline and railroad service to Ankara and Istanbul.
The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/17/cappadocia-modern-tourism/</link>
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		<title>Cappadocia History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, Cappadocia was left in the power of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/16/cappadocia-history/</link>
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		<title>Cappadocia Etymology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The earliest record of the name of Cappadocia 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-) which are part of the Persian Empire. In these lists of countries the Old Persian name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/15/cappadocia-etymology/</link>
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		<title>Cappadocia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In ancient geography, Cappadocia or Capadocia, Turkish Kapadokya (from Greek: Καππαδοκία / Kappadokía, which in turn is from the Persian: Katpatuka meaning &#8220;the land of beautiful horses&#8221;), was the name of an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The name continued to be used in western sources and in the Christian tradition throughout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/04/14/cappadocia/</link>
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		<title>About a trip to the caves of Cappadocia churches.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a trip to the caves of Cappadocia churches.
Aside from the Turkish metropolis Istanbul and Ankara and the beds castles in the tourist centers of the Mediterranean coast is Cappadocia. Amid the Anatolian plateau, through the activity of countless volcanoes and incessant erosion by a strange landscape. Rugged valleys, rock crevices and sudden rugged slopes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/03/14/about-a-trip-to-the-caves-of-cappadocia-churches/</link>
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		<title>The geographical location and geomorphology Göremes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The geographical location and geomorphology Göremes
The valley of Goreme zentralanatolischen is in the highlands, about 80 miles west of the Turkish city of Kayseri and has significant geographic borders by the volcanic chains between the Erciyes Daðý (3916 m) in the East and the Daðý Hasan (3253 m) in the southwest, in the The river [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cappadociatour.org/index.php/2008/03/14/the-geographical-location-and-geomorphology-goremes/</link>
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