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Cappadocia (Kapadokya) is a region of exceptional interest, because of the fantastic and almost unreal character of its landscapes, because of its history and because of the way of life of its populations. Cappadocia covers a triangle area between Kayseri, Nigde and Nevsehir where two volcanoes, the Erciyes Dag (Mount Argaeus) and the Hasan Dag reach 3916m /12,850 ft and 3268m / 10,720 ft at their highest point.
Cappadocia is a vast tuff plateau which relief has been ragged by thousand million years of erosion: wind, rain water and snow have sculpted this unique scenery with canyons and fairy chimneys (Peribacalari) which are soft conical formations with hard basalt caps that defy the laws of balance... Troglodytism which has been a way of living for centuries, can be seen everywhere: cave-dwellings, caves, pigeon houses, churches, monasteries.
Source : guide-martine
