Eskisehir Guide

Eskisehir is one of the oldest settlements (3500 BC) in this region of Anatolia. It was in the 1st Millennium BC by the Phrygians. The Porsuk river and its banks have a proper basis. The city is of interest, with its museums, the Archaeological Museum, the Phrygian objects and sculptures, the Ottoman house museum, is a very good example of the 19th Century domestic architecture and has the local ethnographic objects.


There are three major tombs at Eskisehir. It is Sheikh Edibali grave, grave Kumbet Baba and the dome of the Alemsah. Phrygian Valley, The Falcon fortress, the unfinished monument, and the Gerdek Rock are other historic sites to visit. In Eskisehir, you often see articles made of stone sea foam, because this is the place where it originates. You will see that the best sea foam stone works at the Museum sea foam, it is a very slight white stone and especially for the production of pipes smoking. The carpet and Seyitgazi museums have many examples of different types of kilims and hand-knit socks and stockings.

Sea foam Stone (LULETASI)

The main local art in Eskisehir is sea foam, so-called "white gold" or "Aktas" or "patal" by locals. Working with sea foam is a craft and special to this province.

Sea foam may have white, yellow, gray or reddish and mat colors. Its hardness is between 2-2.5 degrees, and it is easy adhesive and porous. It will consist of 20-60-130 meters of land so large and small rounds. Small rounds are digging deep wells and tunnels in connection with these wells.

Some wells are watery, some wells dry. Stones of watery wells are much better. Sea foam is used in various places such as Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Mexico, Madrid, and Nairobi, but they are unimportant in small quantities and in quality. Sea foam with the highest quality found in Eskisehir. The property, during the drying it holds the remains of moisture and gases in his body, makes sea foam a suitable material for the manufacture of tobacco pipes and a good filling for absorbent material, filter or isolation in the industry. It was an indispensable material in the industry for years. It is used in the cigarette holders, tobacco pipe and decorative goods and color in the automotive industry. It comes in paste porcelain, insecticides, powder and stain removal of medicines.

There are three geological periods in its origins:
First order: It is an ore on sandy loam soil in 10-14 meters depth.

Second order: it is between 40-60 meters depth. It is an existing ore in clay.
Third Order: sea foam with the highest quality forms in series conglomerate, and it exists in 80-130 meters deep Assembly with the topography. Other types of sea foam are: cotton piece, granular cast, unity and cohesion puny.

The places where foam of the sea: Sarisu, Yenisehir, Türkmentokat, Gökçeoglu, Karaçay, Sögütçük, Sepetçi, Margi, Nemli, Kümbet, Yeniköy, Kepertepe, Karahöyük and Basören.

Export of sea foam is 800-900 U.S. dollars income between the years 1978-1987. In addition to pipe tobacco, products like chess sets, bracelets, necklaces and earrings have an important share in exports. Foreign customers are Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium and Germany. Today, the amount of exports, at least 1-1.5 million USD per year. In addition, some value is in Turkish economy through the sale of handworks sea foam for tourists visit Turkey. Gordion (YASSIHOYUK)

Yassihoyuk (Gordion) capital of Phrygia. Those with an interest in the history of the region is a visit Yassihoyuk (Gordion) (105 km), passing Polatli in Eskisehir highway, and Gavurkalesi (60 km / Haymana on the motorway near Derekoy, interesting and easy . Gordion, Phrygian capital, site of Gordion Knot (the key to Asia), is now of interest to the tumulus of King Midas, the Golden Touch and the donkey ears. The remnants of the old city excavated yet to be seen, and it is a small, pleasant museum. Gavurkalesi on, you can see the remains of an open-air Hittite temple, a grave, and two reliefs of Hittite gods.

The season Gordion in 1993 - the site of the former capital of the Phrygian empire and the home of the legendary King Midas of the Golden Note "- with many activities, including the excavation, conservation, restoration and site presentation on the Mound City, and architectural conservation Study of the wooden tomb under the Midas Mound; geomorphological survey; botanical and geological survey and research on previously excavated materials; object conservation in Gordion, and conservation and study of wooden objects in Ankara.
MIDAS

One of the main centres of the settlement of the Phrygians, between 8 and 6 Century BC, was Midas, is located 66 km south of Eskisehir.

At this point the distant past, the city with an ancient Acropolis with a view to the lower country. At its northwest side are two open-air cult temple, carved in the rock, and the most interesting sight in the area.

There are rocky graves and inscriptions Phrygian nearby, and a recently discovered underground tunnel, which links on the website of the extension valley below. The Midas monument built in the commitment to Kybele lies in the north-west of the old city.

Three graves in the vicinity of Midas, which Yazilikaya Kucuk, Sutunlu Kale Kale and Doganli are particularly noteworthy. Kumbet and Deveboynu are other towns in the vicinity of Midas, and visitors can spread the Phrygian monument on these neighbouring countries.

Of the four areas of the site by excavation examines the most important discoveries were immediately in the courtyard of the Early Phrygian Citadel, in the eastern part of the city of Mound. Here is a second part of a structure, the first excavations in 1989 and the nicknames of the PAP ( "Poros and post") structure, and an adjacent courtyard, were excavated. The PAP structure was close to or perhaps against the earliest Phrygian castle wall excavated by Rodney Young in the 1960s. Although the date of the structure, which seems to have a relatively complicated constructions, their demolition and insecure before the eighth century citadel, its construction and May, in the ninth century BC

Dr. Richard Liebhart continued its architectural documentation and study of the large wooden tomb. With the help of a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a conference on the conservation of the tomb and wooden furniture from Gordion was organized by Dr. Elizabeth Simpson and Dr. Liebhart, and held in Ankara and in Gordion.

The main Conservation Project in 1993, supervised by William CS Remsen, AIA, Director of Architectural Conservation for Gordion, was the partial reconstruction and mortar capping of two adjacent walls belonging to an early Phrygian Terrace building. The project was a pilot program to determine the techniques, materials and systems to be used in future conservation at the site. Mr. Remsen and his company, RAD Associates of Boston, donated his time for the project.
Pessinus (BALLIHISAR)

117 km from Ankara, Eskisehir on the road and 16 km on the right side you find the Phrygian city Pessinus, its contemporary name is Ballihisar.

You will see the Temple of Kybele - the mother goddess, and an open-air museum housing market interesting sculptures found in this ancient Phrygian cult centre, which was built in the 10th Century before Christ.