Cappadocia Kapadokya

Cappadocia (Kapadokya) occupies the centre of Anatolia, the region between the Black Sea in the north and the Taurus Mountains (Toros Daglari), between the capital Ankara and the city of Malatya to the east. Famous for its spectacular natural rock formations and valleys, Göreme National Park (Göreme Milli Parki), as it is known today, is strewn with underground cities, monasteries and dwellings and stone chapels that were hewn out of the eroded volcanic rock from as long ago as 400 BC.