Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Gamirasu is an exquisitely restored 30-room cave hotel in Ayvali Village, near Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey
Lesvos - Midilli ( Aegean Sea - Greece)
Lesbos (/ˈlɛzbɒs/; Greek: Λέσβος Lesvos, pronounced [ˈle̞zvo̞s]), sometimes referred to as Mytilini after its capital, is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1,632 square kilometres (630 sq mi) with 320 kilometres (199 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait and in late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the last Ice Age.
Lesbos is a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region, and is one of five governing islands within it. The others are Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos, and Samos. The total number of islands governed by the North Aegean are nine: Lesbos, Chios, Psara, Oinousses, Ikaria, Fournoi Korseon, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios and Samos. The capital of the North Aegean Region is Mytilene. The population of Lesbos is approximately 86,000, a third of which lives in its capital, Mytilene, in the southeastern part of the island. The remaining population is distributed in small towns and villages. The largest are Plomari, Kalloni, the Gera Villages, Agiassos, Eresos, and Molyvos (the ancient Mythimna).
According to later Greek writers Mytilene was founded in the 11th century BC by the family Penthilidae, who arrived from Thessaly, and ruled the city-state until a popular revolt (590–580 BC) led by Pittacus of Mytilene ended their rule. In fact the archaeological and linguistic record may indicate a late Iron Age arrival of Greek settlers although references in Late Bronze Age Hittite archives indicate a likely Greek presence then. The name Mytilene itself seems to be of Hittite origin. According to Homer's Iliad, however, Lesbos was part of the kingdom of Priam. Much work remains to be done to determine just what was happening and when. In Middle Ages, it was under Byzantine and then Genoese rule. Lesbos was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1462. The Ottomans then ruled the island until the First Balkan War in 1912, when it became part of the Kingdom of Greece.
Midilli (Yunanca: Λέσβος 'Lésvos' Osmanlıca: مدللى), Ege Denizi'nin kuzeydoğusunda bulunan, dağlık bir Yunan adası. Yunanistan'ın ana karasından çok Türkiye'nin Ayvalık ilçesine yakın olan ada, Girit ve Eğriboz'dan sonra Yunanistan'ın en büyük üçüncü adasıdır.[2] Başkenti Mytilene'dir. Ünlü Yunan şairleri Alcaeus ve Sappho'nun memleketidir. Eşcinsel kadın şair Sappho'ya atfen, Lésvoslu anlamına gelen lezbiyen sözcüğü 1800'lü yıllardan itibaren kadın eşcinsel anlamında kullanılır olmuştur.[3] 1467 yılında Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa bu adada doğmuştur.
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