WHS+-+Cappadocia+(Turkey)

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====The earliest record of the name of Cappadocia dates from the late 6th century BC. Cappadocia was known as Hatti in the late Bronze Age, and was the homeland of the Hattite power centred at Hattusa. ====

==== The name “Cappadocia” dates back to Persian times, when the region was called as “katpatukya” meaning “Land of Beautiful Horses”. Since that time Cappadocia has seen the rise and fall of many different civilizations ====

Cappadocia lies in eastern Anatolia, in the center of what is now Turkey.
====The area is a famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features. The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago, during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches and monasteries. ====



====Due to its inland location and high altitude Cappadocia has continental climate, with hot dry summers and cold snowy winters. Rainfall is sparse and the region is largely semi-arid ==== 

====Cappadocia is the ancient name of a large region in the center of Anatolia, although when we speak of Cappadocia today we refer specifically to the valleys of Goreme and Urgup, with their natural pinnacles and rock churches. Cappadocia is not a town or city, it is not even one of the current seventy-three provinces of the Republic of Turkey. ====

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====Cappadocia is defined as the country between the Black Sea, The upper Euphrates (river in Mesopotamia), The Taurus Mountains (mountains in southern Turkey) and the river Halys (river east of Ankara). Cappadocia also have volcanic problems. Now as the years have past, volcanoes have now become extinct. It has now become a land of vast plains, rolling hills, rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes. ====