North Central Anatolia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About North Central Anatolia
This is a stretched-out, loosely defined geographical region, but it roughly corresponds to the east-west travel corridor via Ankara. Historically there was no single trunk route, but traders, pilgrims and soldiers plodded along a network of valleys and dusty lanes, all of which could be described as "the Silk Road". For example when Tamburlaine stormed out of central Asia in 1402, he inconsiderately declined to take the route where the Ottomans stood in strength, and he almost snuffed out their new dynasty before it got started. The modern traveller zips across this region by fast highway or train, but the places these flying-carpets now bypass are worth exploring, as they have as much of the old architecture and culture as the earthquakes have spared.
North Central Anatolia Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 10 sections including: