Rock-cut architecture in Cappadocia in Central Turkey includes living and work spaces as well as sacred buildings like churches and monasteries, that...
21 KB (2,712 words) - 20:51, 30 September 2024
The three main uses of rock-cut architecture were temples (like those in India), tombs, and cave dwellings (like those in Cappadocia). A related term, monolithic...
15 KB (1,703 words) - 08:09, 9 September 2024
Ihlara valley (redirect from Churches of the Ihlara Valley)
the southwest of the Turkish region of Cappadocia, in the municipality of Güzelyurt, Aksaray Province. The valley contains around 50 rock-hewn Christian...
10 KB (1,258 words) - 15:17, 19 July 2024
Uçhisar (category Cappadocia)
fairy chimney Uçhisar Kalesi (Uçhisar Castle) from the south Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results...
6 KB (716 words) - 15:24, 30 May 2023
Soğanlı Valley (category Rock-cut architecture)
part of the region of Cappadocia. The valley contains several rock-cut churches and other rock-cut buildings, carved from the soft tuff stone of the Cappadocian...
6 KB (707 words) - 11:46, 7 July 2024
Mosque Cappadocia traditional houses Decorated tree with Uçhisar Castle in the background. Horses roaming in Cappadocia rock-cut architecture in Monks...
45 KB (4,626 words) - 11:04, 31 October 2024
Yeşilöz, Ürgüp Ihlara Valley Soğanlı Valley Ihlara Cappadocia Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia Christianity in Turkey Derinkuyu Underground City Kaymaklı...
27 KB (3,627 words) - 19:43, 26 April 2024
Rinceau Ringfort Riwaq Rocca Rock castle Rock-cut architecture Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia Rococo architecture in Portugal Rococo in Spain Roman...
65 KB (5,416 words) - 20:57, 2 August 2024
study of Derinkuyu underground city in Cappadocia, located in pyroclastic rock materials. World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban...
19 KB (2,163 words) - 11:37, 2 November 2024
Cappadocian Greeks (redirect from Greeks of Cappadocia)
to depths of over 80 meters. In the Middle Ages Cappadocia had hundreds of settlements and Byzantine rock-cut churches were carved out of the volcanic...
131 KB (17,228 words) - 22:59, 22 October 2024
Funco house in Cape Verde Basalt tuff, rock-cut architecture in Cappadocia, found in central Anatolia and parts of Iran Tholoi type homes have been constructed...
61 KB (6,335 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2024
Lion Monument Rock-cut architecture Indian rock-cut architecture List of statues; by height; in U.S. List of Roman domes New 7 Wonders of the World Collins...
5 KB (416 words) - 15:27, 18 September 2024
Aksaray (redirect from Koloneia in Cappadocia)
tour groups visiting Cappadocia. Near Ihlara, Güzelyurt is a pretty Cappadocian town with rock-cut churches and even a rock-cut mosque as well as many...
28 KB (2,481 words) - 20:25, 22 October 2024
Ortahisar, Nevşehir (category Cappadocia)
(300 ft) rock-castle in the centre of the town, which is called Sivrikaya by the inhabitants. It is an extraordinary example of the rock-cut architecture which...
6 KB (652 words) - 13:01, 11 May 2024
Monolithic church (redirect from Rock-hewn church)
and some archaic popular styles Rock-cut architecture Monolithic architecture Wieliczka & Bochnia Salt Mine List of cave monasteries Petra Ellora Caves...
7 KB (804 words) - 23:15, 28 October 2024
Nevşehir (redirect from History of Nevşehir)
Football Stadium Uçhisar, a rock-cut castle in Cappadocia. Churches of Göreme Nevşehir Castle from exterior Interior of Nevsehir Castle Nevşehir Castle...
19 KB (1,339 words) - 10:15, 17 October 2024
Greater Armenian control or became a part of Cappadocia. Around 54 CE, the Romans installed Sohaemus of Emesa as King of Sophene. After this, Sophene reverted...
18 KB (1,929 words) - 11:30, 2 November 2024
Turkish region of Cappadocia, are locally called Karaan. Karaans were cut into non-welded ignimbrites, also called "ash-flow tuffs," of Mount Sahand. The...
6 KB (562 words) - 06:18, 30 October 2024
Çanlı Kilise (category Cappadocia)
church from the historical region of Cappadocia, the church is one of the best examples of Byzantine masonry architecture in central Anatolia and is frequently...
48 KB (6,365 words) - 07:52, 3 April 2023
Horseshoe arch (category Islamic architectural elements)
evidence of their use is also found in early Christian architecture in Byzantine Anatolia and became characteristic of Christian architecture in Cappadocia, though...
33 KB (3,119 words) - 08:01, 22 October 2024
Indian rock-cut architecture Monolithic architecture Monolithic church Abbey of Saint-Roman Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine "Mysteries of caves...
9 KB (745 words) - 17:41, 28 September 2023
Cross-in-square (category Byzantine sacred architecture)
Byzantine Cappadocia and the development of the inverted T-plan". The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 56 (3). Society of Architectural Historians:...
21 KB (2,766 words) - 09:13, 12 February 2024
Annabel J. Wharton (category Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art)
Byzantine Cappadocia and Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery are cited in the second edition of Byzantine Art, part of the Oxford...
12 KB (1,176 words) - 03:16, 10 October 2024
(part of the Maghreb). Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic...
184 KB (21,023 words) - 18:25, 22 October 2024
Vardzia (category Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance of Georgia)
reach of Trialeti culture. Cave settlements such as Uplistsikhe are known along the Kura River from at least the fifth century BC, while rock cut architecture...
15 KB (1,661 words) - 07:29, 9 February 2024
Cave temples in Asia (category Asian architecture)
rock or created in a natural cave. Cave temples and monolithic rock temples carved out of the stone are a form of early natural architecture and rock...
52 KB (6,229 words) - 18:24, 6 December 2023
the architecture of Achaemenid tombs. Toos, Mashhad Scythian soldier with trilingual identification label on lintel, 2018 Achaemenid architecture Cities...
15 KB (856 words) - 18:40, 15 February 2024
Naqsh-e Rostam (category Rock-cut tombs)
A collection of ancient Iranian rock reliefs are cut into the face of the mountain and the mountain contains the final resting place of four Achaemenid...
22 KB (1,814 words) - 07:19, 21 October 2024
Niğde (category Cappadocia)
(1876–1954), a Cappadocian Greek chocolate manufacturer from Nigde, Cappadocia and founder of the internationally famous Leonidas company in Belgium Petros...
18 KB (1,446 words) - 02:30, 23 October 2024
Double church (category Byzantine architecture)
rectangular bay in front of it. Toivanen, Hanna-Riitta (2001). "Byzantine Church at Üçayak (Kirşehir, Cappadocia)". Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia...
2 KB (184 words) - 22:31, 28 February 2021