Monastery new discovery in underground city in Cappadocia

Hurriyet Daily News ^ | June 23, 2016 | Anadolu Agency

[SunkenCiv]

A monastery hewn from the rock has been found during excavations and cleaning works in an underground city that was discovered in 2014 in the Central Anatolian province of Nevsehir...

Excavation and cleaning works have been continuing on an area of 400,000 square meters that includes 11 neighborhoods around Nevsehir Castle, which is situated in the city center and has been declared a third-degree archaeological area.

At the beginning of the year, a historic church was discovered in the underground city. The church features frescoes depicting the ascension of Jesus to heaven as well as other important objects for the Orthodox community. There are also frescoes showing the apostles, the saints and prophets Moses and Elijah.

The latest discovery is a monastery carved from the rock that may date back to the fifth or sixth centuries.

Nevsehir Mayor Hasan Unver said the discovery of new places in the underground city had provided great excitement to academics and archaeologists...

The excavations have so far revealed oil factories, water ways, common areas, an underground church and horse stables used by old armies, Unver said...

Archaeologist Semih Istanbulluoglu, who is closely following the works in the underground city, said they were very excited at the discoveries of the rock-hewn church and the monastery. 

Istanbulluoglu said the newly discovered complex likely dated from the fifth century. "We will see what we find in the next stages. The history of this place is very old. If we can find evidence from the Hittite era, we will make a great contribution to Nevsehir’s history."

[Trumpinator]

I was responding to someone who wrote "The Turks were just way better fighters".

That is not true. They Turks lost many fights and their empire was less an occupation and more of a tribute scheme.

Also, the plague took its toll on the population of cities while the Turks were living in tents outside of cities. So the Turks were not ravaged by the plague as much.

[Trumpinator]

That is not what happened at Manzikert.

The Romans aka Byzantines were pursing the Turks who were retreating and not giving battle. The Romans lost track of time in heat of pursuit and night fell and became separated form each other and the Turks using Mongol tactics ambushed them.

In fact by all accounts the Turks did not even know they had wiped out the only field army the Byzantines had in the region. They captured the emperor and made ransom terms like a normal raid party kind of thing. Only many weeks later when no Roman army appeared in the field did the Seljuks raid deep and established the the Seljuk Rum territory in a depopulated Anatolian heartland.

[Mr Radical]

You’re right, in haste I replied to the wrong post. Apologies.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, the Turks were way better than the Byzantines, and just beat their asses, just as I said.

[Trumpinator]

IOW, the Turks were way better than the Byzantines, and just beat their asses, just as I said.

No, the eastern Romans defeated the Turks in lots of battles but the Turks could recover quicker while the Byzantines would lose one battle and ruined. We are seeing that now with the American military. Won every battle in Vietnam and Iraq but could not sustain those victories because the US military is just too expensive to operate at that level continuously.