Two more Turkish cultural assets inscribed on UNESCO list
Published 03 May,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - Two more cultural assets of Turkey have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. With the new additions, 85 cultural assets from Turkey have made it to the list.
The historic town of Kemaliye in the eastern province of Erzincan and the Late Antique and Medieval churches and monasteries of Midyat and surrounding area called Tur Abdin in the southeastern province of Mardin have been added to the UNESCO’s list, the Culture and Tourism Ministry said in a statement.
The historic town of Kemaliye (or Eğin) is located in the northwest of the Eastern Anatolian Region, and to the southwest of the Erzincan province, which lies in the Upper Euphrates. The east, west, north and south of the Kemaliye settlement are surrounded by mountains.
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