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Central
Anatolia Highlights |
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Antioch
of Pisidia -
A city ‘off the beaten track’ and not on a major
route but once with a wealthy Jewish Community during St.
Paul’s visit. His first recorded sermon in Acts was to
this community, resulting in sever persecution, shaking the
'dust from their feet’ on their departure.
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Iconium -
(Konya) Located on the western edge of a great plain, the
city endures dust clouds in the summer and snow blizzards
in the winter. It was a crossing point for many trade routes
and therefore the city enjoyed prominence in antiquity. Renowned
today as a religious centre of the Mevlana Dervishes (the
Whirling Dervishes). Paul and Barnabas visited on their first
Missionary journey, caused an uproar and had to flee.
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Ankara
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Once only a Turkish village of 20,000 people, is today Turkey’s
capital with 5 million inhabitants. Being on one of the main
Hittite highways, it’s Citadel dominates the city and it’s
Byzantine Walls are still prominent. The spacious Museum of
Anatolian Civilisations is well worth the visit. St. Paul dedicated
an Epistle to the “Churches of Galatia” in this region.
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Tarsus
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Birthplace of Paul, born around A.D. 10 as a Jew of the Tribe
of Benjamin where his craft was Tentmaker. Paul himself described
Tarsus as a ‘no mean city’ and later, Alexander
the Great drowned in the Cyndus River which runs through the
town.
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Goreme
Region -
An area of odd, conic forms of grey-yellow rock, some topped
with angled hats and honeycombed with caves.
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Over
3,500 rock-churches have been discovered many with stunning
frescoes of religious art.
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Click below for full size map of Turkey
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Peter,
an
Apostle of
Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia and Binthynia.....
(1 Peter 2:1)
Parthians,
and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia,
and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, (Acts
2:9)
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SAMPLE ITINERARIES
8 Day Itinerary
Regions Including
Ankara, Cappadocia, Iconium, Perge, Tarsus.
10
Day Itinerary
Regions Including
Ankara, Cappadocia,
Tarsus, Perge, Antalia, Pamukkale, Iconium.
12
Day Itinerary
Regions Including
Ankara, Cappadocia,
Iconium, Pamukkale, Antalya, Perge, Tarsus, Istanbul.
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COMBINATION
OPTIONS
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also specialise in
tailor-made itineraries.
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