Cappadocia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historical region of Asia Minor
About Cappadocia
Ancient Cappadocia was a kingdom and later a province of the Roman Empire extending northeast across Anatolia to Sivas and southwest to Aksaray and Niğde. But what is nowadays known world-wide as Cappadocia, and described on this page, is a smaller area near Nevşehir with weird and spectacular scenery. Between 9 and 3 million years ago, eruptions of Mount Erciyes and Mount Hasan covered the area in fine ash particles, which welded together and packed down into a deep layer of tuff. This is a soft rock that erodes easily, so it only persists in a dry climate, or if protected by overlay of harder rocks. Where it outcrops at the rim of a plateau, the rainfall and wind sculpts the tuff into domes, cones and columns; the general name for these is "hoodoos" and is applicable to formations from o
Cappadocia Travel Guide Sections
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