Eastern Anatolia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of East Turkey
About Eastern Anatolia
Covering over four times the area ofSwitzerlandbut with fewer than 7 million people, Eastern Anatolia is all about lonely and vast landscapes of mountainous terrain, occasionally interspersed with flat-ish plateau. Historically this area was mainly inhabited by ethnic Armenians and was known asWestern Armenia, until theOttoman Empire killed or deported almost all the Armenians during World War I. Mount Ararat, the most sacred site in the world for ethnic Armenians, is here, next to the modern-day Armenian border. The climate is continental in the south, hemiboreal in the north. Southern cities (south of Ağrı) experience hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters with a storm season in spring; while northern cities experience mild to warm, showery summers and frigid, snowy winters. The whole
Eastern Anatolia Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 12 sections including: