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Gedemo Derinkuyu City-State

Derinkuyu

City-State Trait: Mines trigger Culture Bomb.

City-State Type: Industrial

History:
Located in Cappadocia, Derinkuyu is notable for its large multi-level underground city (Derinkuyu Underground City), which is a major tourist attraction. The historical region of Cappadocia, where Derinkuyu is situated, contains several historical underground cities, carved out of a unique geological formation. They are not generally occupied. Over 200 underground cities at least two levels deep have been discovered in the area between Kayseri and Neveehir, with around 40 of those having at least three levels. The troglodyte cities at Derinkuyu and Kaymakle are two of the best examples of underground dwellings. The oldest written source about underground structures is the writings of Xenophon. In his Anabasis he writes that the people living in Anatolia had excavated their houses underground, living well in accommodations large enough for the family, domestic animals, and supplies of stored food. The first two floors of the Derinkuyu Underground City have been dated to this early period. From Byzantine times (4th century CE) through 1923 Derinkuyu was known by its Cappadocian Greek inhabitants as Malakopea. The underground city was greatly expanded in the middle Byzantine period to serve as a refuge from the raids of the Umayyad Arab and Abbasid armies, during the Arab Byzantine wars (780-1180). The city contained food stores, kitchens, stalls, churches, wine and oil presses, ventilation shafts, wells, and a religious school. The Derinkuyu underground city has at least eight levels and depth of 85 m and could have sheltered thousands of people. The city continued to be used as protection from the Mongolian incursions of Timur in the 14th century. After the region fell to the Ottomans the cities were used as refuges . As late as the 20th century the town's inhabitants, called Cappadocian Greeks, were still using the underground chambers to escape periodic waves of Ottoman persecution. When they were required to leave in 1923 in the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey the tunnels were finally abandoned.

Compatible with Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm.

Mod Support:

Ynaemp (Giant, Greatest, LargestEarthCustom, LargeEurope, PlayEuropeAgain and Cordiform)
40sw4rm's "Old World"
English and french languages

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