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Traditional Turkish Hand Crafts has formed a rich mosaic by bringing together its genuine values with the cultural heritage of the different civilizations which were coming from the thousand years of history of the Anatolia. Traditional Turkish Hand Crafts can be listed as; carpet making, rug making, sumac, cloth waiving, writing, tile making, ceramic-pottery, handwork making, making embroidery, leather manufacturing, music instrument making, masonry, coppersmith, basket making, saddle making, mining, felt making, weaving, wood handicraft, cart making etc. The raw material of the weaving is provided from the wool, mohair, cotton, bristle and silk.
Turkey is well known as a free flying country due to lack of restrictions on paragliding and hangliding. There is no official requirement for membership, insurance, site permission, etc., but entrance fees apply to some popular sites such as Oludeniz. Just grab your glider and off to go, there is no one in between you and the sky. Come and enjoy the ultimate freedom in this marvellous place.
Oludeniz is a dream location, arguably the highest fly down from any dive up paragliding site. The launch area at 6000 ft is a gentle slope where you and youre pilot are harnessed together and your glider is laid out behind you ready for take off. When the conditions are right you will both run until the glider inflates above your head and gently lifts you off the ground… You’re Airborne. Now you can sit back and enjoy the thrill of soaring with the birds above the beatifull bay of Oludeniz. So take your camera to record the experience of a lifetime which will last at 1/2 hours. The landing is as smooth as take off, the pilot flaires the canopy and you touch down with a little forward motion.
HISTORY OF THE CITY
The Odrys
Near the city of Ainos archaeologists have excavated a settlement belonging to one of the oldest known neolithic cultures in the Balkans. Their pottery and the defensive wall around the settlement are typical of contemporary Anatolian cultures, so these people are thought to have been a colony from Anatolia.
Later Thrace was settled by a people whose courage and skills as warriors put fear into many of their neighbours. These qualities meant that the Thracians were sought after as mercenaries by first the Athenians and then the Romans. Thracian settlements took many forms, from caves to strong forts, farms to fishing villages whose houses were raised on poles, and unwalled cities.
The Apsinti, east of Ainos, the Drugeri in the central region of the Hebrus, the Tyns in Salmydessos and the Kalopothaks were some of the Thracian tribes who inhabited the region stretching from Ainos to the Kallipolis (Gallipoli) peninsula. Most famous of all were the Odrys who at the height of their power inhabited an area extending from the Tonzos valley to the Aegean coast.
Odrysai was one of the major to vns of the powerful Odrys Thracians. Odrysai lay in the fork at the confluence of the Hebrus and the Tonzos, and was a centre of commerce.
AREA: 8.629 km²
POPULATION: 1.073.560 (1990)
TRAFFIC CODE: 67
DISTRICTS: Zonguldak (center), Alaplı, Amasra, Çaycuma, Devrek, Eflani, Ereğli, Gökçebey, Kurucaşile, Ulus, Yenice.
SITES OF INTEREST: Alaplı, Ilıksu, Kopuz, İnkumu and Amasra beaches, National Soverignty Forest, Lake (Göl) Mountain, Plateau, Kocaman, Bostanözü, Çamlık, Baklabostan and Gürleyik forest recreation areas, Cumayanı, Kızılelma and Mencilis caves, Amasra Castle, Church at Amasra, Fatih and İskele mosques, small mosques of Eyiciler and Hacı Nuri, Orta and Yukarı (Halil Bey Mosque) mosques at Bartın, Eski Cami (Gazi Süleyman Pasha Mosque), Taş Minare, Köprülü, Hidayettullah, Dağdelen, Kazdağlı, İzzet Mehmed Pasha and Koçak (Lütfiye) mosques, Kalealtı and Ali Baba dervish lodge (tekke), Cinci Han, Old (Eski) and New (Yeni) baths, Taşköprü, Tokatlıköprü and İnceköprü bridges.
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