Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Turkey
Detourmap lists 567 places in Turkey, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (394). Best known: Troy. 344 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 567
- Oldest here
- Göbekli Tepe 9999 BC
- Little known
- 344 of 567
- City pages
- 8
By region
5 first-level divisions of Turkey have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
8 cities in Turkey have enough places for a page of their own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Turkey 394
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1.Constantinople
Archaeological · 4th century · Iconic
Capital of the Eastern Roman, Latin and Ottoman Empires, currently Istanbul, Turkey
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2.Troy
Archaeological · 30th century BC · Iconic
Ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor; it is known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan war
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4.Temple of Ephesian Artemis
Archaeological · 4th century BC · Iconic
Temple in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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5.Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Archaeological · 4th century BC · Iconic
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Nature & landscapes in Turkey 173
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4.Golden Horn
Nature · Renowned
Urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Turkey?
Troy, 30th century BC. Ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor; it is known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan war. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Turkey?
567: 394 archaeological & historic sites and 173 nature & landscapes. 344 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Turkey?
Göbekli Tepe, dated to 9999 BC. 115 of the 567 places here carry a founding date at all, and 61 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.