Turkey
Nevşehir Province
Ürgüp District

Ortahisar

Ortahisar, is located in the heart of the Cappadocia region and is closely associated with several major valleys, rock-cut settlements, and historical sites that form the core landscape of Cappadocia.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: town municipality in Ürgüp, Nevşehir province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ortahisar, Nevşehir”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ortahisar Castle and Göreme Open Air Museum.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a scenic viewpoint.

Museum
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is a district of the in . After the eruption of about 2.6 million years ago, ash and lava formed soft rocks in the region, covering an area of about 20,000 square kilometres. is situated 2½ km northwest of Ortahisar.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Göreme and Ürgüp.

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is a town in the region of Turkey, with a population of 2034 in 2022. It's at the heart of the "fairy chimney" landscape, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, with soft volcanic tuff eroded into fantastical rock formations and excavated into cave dwellings.

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is a town in in central Turkey, in a landscape of soft volcanic tuff that has eroded into hoodoos or "fairy chimneys", and that has been excavated into cave dwellings. In 2022 the population was 24,600.

Village
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, formerly known as Sinasos, is a town in the of , . Its population is 1,295. Its status as a town had been downgraded to village with 2013 Reorganisation up until the court order in 2024. is situated 5 km southeast of Ortahisar.

Ortahisar

Latitude
38.62146° or 38° 37′ 17″ north
Longitude
34.86516° or 34° 51′ 55″ east
Elevation
1,208 metres (3,963 feet)
Open location code
8GCPJVC8+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 88129940
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
303332
Wiki­data ID
Q1278352
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ortahisar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أورطة حصار”
  • Bulgarian: “Ортахисар”
  • Catalan: “Ortahisar”
  • Chechen: “ОртахӀисар”
  • Dutch: “Ortahisar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورطة حصار”
  • French: “Ortahisar”
  • German: “Ortahisar”
  • Hungarian: “Ortahisar”
  • Ido: “Ortahisar (Nevşehir)”
  • Ido: “Ortahisar”
  • Italian: “Ortahisar”
  • Portuguese: “Ortahisar”
  • Swedish: “Ortahisar, Nevşehir”
  • Swedish: “Ortahisar”
  • Tatar: “Ортахисар”
  • Turkish: “Ortahisar, Nevşehir”
  • Turkish: “Ortahisar, Ürgüp”
  • Turkish: “Ortahisar”
  • Urdu: “نیوشہر، اورتا حصار”
  • Vietnamese: “Ortahisar, Ürgüp”
  • Vietnamese: “Ortahisar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ortahisar”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.