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Bartin - Amasra Museum

It has been felt as an obligation to establish a museum in Amasra, as this city is a centre of archaic settlement and rich in terms of historical monuments.

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15th Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival

15th Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival will be held in one of the most beautiful tourism centers: Antalya between June 7 and July 3, 2008.
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Hadrian's Gate

The Hadrian's Gate (or Hadrianus Gate or Üçkapılar (meaning "The Three Gates" in Turkish)) is a triumphal arch which was built in the name of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited Antalya in 130 A.D. It has three arched gates.

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Traditional Antalya Houses

The formation of traditional Antalya houses is based on the following principles: regard for life, nature and the environment, sincerity, wisdom, flexibility and practicality, and an emphasis on function rather than style. All of which are apparent in the design concept and layout of the rooms and their placement in the traditional Turkish house.

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Attila the Hun

Attila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God or "King Attila the Hun", was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea .

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Asena

Asena is the name of a female wolf in Turkic mythology. It is associated with a Göktürk ethnogenic myth "full of shamanic symbolism".

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Old Turkic Script

The Old Turkic script (also Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script; Turkish: Orhun Yazıtları) is the alphabet used by the Göktürk from the 8th century to record the Old Turkic language.

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Tonyukuk

Tonyukuk (died c. 724 AD) was the grand vizier and commander-in-chief of four Göktürk khagans, the best known of whom is Bilge Khan.

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Bilge Khan

Bilge Khan (Arslan Bilgä Khağan; 683 or 684 - 734) was one of the most powerful emperors of the Göktürk Empire. His accomplishments are immortalized in the Orkhon inscriptions.

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Kul Tigin

Kul Tigin (685 - 731 or 732 CE) was a famous general of the Second Turkic Kaganate. He was a second son of Ilterish Shad and the younger brother of Bilge Kagan.

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