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Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia are on UNESCO's World Heritage List

CAPPADOCIA Arts and Crafts

Pottery, Ceramics & Tiles

The red, iron-ore bearing clay deposited by the longest river in Turkey, The Kizilirmak, or "Red River", known to classical scholars as "The Halys", has been used to make pottery in Avanos for thousands of years. During the second millennium BCE, Avanos was inhabited by Assyrian traders, and it was later taken over by the Hittites, who called the river the "Marassantiya". Some of the techniques and designs used by potters today date back to this period. At one time every house had a potters wheel, and no family would give their daughter in marriage if the groom could not make pots! Today, the best of the ceramics and tiles on sale in Istanbul and other major cities are made here. You can watch potters spinning their traditional kick-wheels with their feet, and even try throwing a pot yourself.

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