Kaymakli underground city

Underground Cities? These troglodyte cavern urban communities were unearthed as right on time as Hittite occasions, and extended throughout the hundreds of years as different raiding armed forces navigated Central Anatolia looking for hostages and loot. There are 36 underground urban areas in Cappadocia and the most stretched out one is Kaymakli underground city, while the most profound is the Derinkuyu Underground City.

Kaymakli underground city is worked under the slope known as the Citadel of Kaymakli and was opened to guests in 1964. The individuals of Kaymakli (Enegup in Greek) town have developed their homes around about one hundred passages of the underground city. The occupants of the district despite everything utilize the most advantageous places in the passages as basements, stockpiling zones and stables, which they access through their yards. The Kaymakli Underground City has low, restricted and slanting entries. While the underground city comprises of 8 stories subterranean, just 4 of them are available to the open today, in which the spaces are sorted out around ventilation shafts.

Kaymakli Underground CityThe first floor of the underground city is the stable. The little size of this region recommends that there could be different stables in areas that have not yet been opened. The section to one side of the stable contains a grinder entryway and leads into the congregation. To one side of the hallway are rooms burrowed out as living territories.

The congregation on the second floor has a solitary nave and two apses. Before the apses is a special stepped area, and on the sides are seating stages. There are additionally some living zones on this floor.

The most significant territories of the underground city are on the third floor. Other than various capacity spots, wineries and kitchen, the square of andesite with help surface found on this floor is fascinating. Late research has demonstrated that this stone was utilized as a blend for copper. The stone was not brought here from outside however was a piece of the andesite layer unearthened while emptying. To have the option to utilize it as a blend, 57 openings were cut on the outside of the stone. The copper mineral, around 10 cm long, would be placed into one of those gaps and would be pounded utilizing a hard bit of rock. This procedure has been known since the Prehistoric Periods.

Kaymakli Underground CityThe copper brought to the Kaymakli Underground City was most likely burrowed from a quarry among Aksaray and Nevsehir. (A similar quarry was likewise utilized by the individuals of Asilikhoyuk, the most seasoned known settlement in Cappadocia Region.)

The way that there are a ton of extra spaces and places to put pottery shakes in the wineries on the fourth floor shows that the individuals living right now were financially steady. The ventilation shaft can likewise be seen from the fourth floor. It is a vertical well and passes all floors down like on the lift in a condo. The profundity of the ventilation shaft is around 80 meters altogether.

Despite the fact that the entire city has not been totally opened, and since just 4 stories have been revealed, it is sure that Kaymakli is one of the biggest underground settlements in the locale. It is acknowledged as the vastest underground city of Cappadocia, among the investigated ones. The quantity of the extra spaces in such a little region underpins the possibility that an extraordinary number of individuals dwelled here. Archeologists imagine this could have been up to 3500 individuals.