Landscape surrounding Eğirdir#

Landscape surrounding Eğirdir
Landscape surrounding Eğirdir, May 2012, © Gerhard Huber, under CC BY-NC 4.0 +Edu

Between Seydiler and the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea the Taurus Mountains towering with its altitude of 3,000 meters serves as a sheer unconquerable barrier. Rivers have dug deep canyons into the stone. 2,000 years ago a trade route ran right through one of these canyons, the Yazili Canyon, connecting Perge and Antiochia and passing the ancient city of Adada.
Zwischen Seydiler und der türkischen Ägäis bildet der 3000 m aufragende Taurus eine kaum überwindliche Barriere. Flüsse haben tiefe Canyons in das Gestein gegraben. Durch eine dieser Schluchten, den Yazili Canyon, führte vor 2000 Jahren die Fernhandelsstraße von Perge nach Antiochia, vorbei an der antiken Stadt Adada.