Underground City :: Derinkuyu

in #ulogs6 years ago

Peace Steemians,

Nevşehir, a province in the country of Turkey was a particular place where a series of underground rooms was discovered. Today, this place is called Derinkuyu Underground City.

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Nevşehir is a very ancient place. It was famous for its landscape of strange mountains and valleys. Much of the area is desert. Over many years volcanic ash pressed together to become stone. Stone formed this way is called tuff. Tuff is a rock, but it is still very soft. Over the centuries, the wind and rain shaped the tuff into the mountains of modern day Nevşehir.

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The soft tuff is also very easy for people to shape. It was easy for any person to make a mark in the stones of Nevşehir. It is so soft, that people can shape it with their fingers. For ancient people, this was easier than making a house out in the open. It was also easier to defend than houses above the ground.

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Through the centuries, different groups of people came into Cappadocia and used the underground caverns that were already there. They made them into bigger, more complex homes. Kings came into and fell out of power. People groups moved in and out of the area. But the underground homes always remained for whoever came next. So these cities are part of the shared history of many groups of people.

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People in modern day Cappadocia are finding strange spaces beneath their houses. And they are still using these spaces carved from the tuff as a tourist attraction.

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Also, the underground space is used to store food crops. The temperature is cool, and stays cool all day. This is perfect for keeping local crops like potatoes. Autochtone can make extra money from their underground space.

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