Section iii · The Cities
Every one of Türkiye's 81 provinces, grouped by region — and a thematic shelf for the great ancient archaeological sites. Live essays are linked; the rest are forthcoming.
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The metropolitan northwest, the Trakya wheat plain, and the Aegean coast from the Dardanelles down to the Menderes valley — the early Ottoman capitals, the great archaeological coast, and Türkiye's industrial and cultural heartland.
The southern coast and its mountain hinterland — Antalya's Pamphylian beaches, Mersin's Çukurova cotton plain, Hatay's Hellenistic Antioch country, and the inland Lakes Region of Pisidia.
The high plateau between the Toros and Pontic mountains — the Republican capital, the Seljuk heartland, Cappadocia's volcanic country, and the great Hittite homeland of Hattuşa and Aslantepe.
The Pontic coast and its mountain hinterland — Trebizond, Sinope, Samsun on the great river deltas; the hazelnut country of Ordu and Giresun; the inland Hittite heartland at Çorum; the Çoruh-valley country to the far northeast.
The high plateau and the great river country east of the Euphrates — the Urartian capitals on Lake Van, the Seljuk frontier from Manzikert (1071), the Kurdish principalities of the long Ottoman centuries, and the upper-Tigris country down to the Iraqi border. Includes the historical Southeastern Anatolia (Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep).
A thematic shelf for the great sites of Asia Minor — Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Hittite, Urartian. Most are covered inside the host-province essay; a handful have their own deep-dive page.
All 81 provinces accounted for — 75 with live essays as of May 2026, six forthcoming (Yalova, Osmaniye, Karaman, Karabük, Düzce, Kilis). The ancient-sites shelf is a thematic cross-reference; each site is fully covered inside the essay for the modern province that holds it.