Turkey
Nevşehir Province
Avanos

Cavusin

Göreme 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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  • Type: Village with 387 residents
  • Description: village in Avanos, Nevşehir, central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Çavuşin”, “Çavuşini”, “Çavuşini Köyü”, “Chavushin”, “Tschawusch In”, and “Tschawuschin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St John the Baptist church (Çavuşin) and Göreme Open Air Museum.

Church
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 3½ km south of Cavusin.

Church
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is situated 3½ km south of Cavusin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Göreme and Uçhisar.

Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Photo: Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in where pinnacles of soft tuff have been hollowed out into bastions and dwellings. Uç hisar means "outermost fort", the fortified main pinnacle.

Village
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, 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. is situated 6 km south of Cavusin.

Cavusin

Latitude
38.67083° or 38° 40′ 15″ north
Longitude
34.83946° or 34° 50′ 22″ east
Population
387
Elevation
1,048 metres (3,438 feet)
Open location code
8GCPMRCQ+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 87834097
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
319130
Wiki­data ID
Q272689
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yoruba—“Cavusin” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Çavuşin”
  • Chechen: “Чавушин”
  • Chinese: “大鸽房”
  • Dutch: “Cavusin”
  • Dutch: “Çavuşin”
  • French: “Çavuşin”
  • German: “Cavusin”
  • German: “Çavuşin”
  • Greek: “Τσαβουσίν”
  • Hungarian: “Çavuşin”
  • Malay: “Çavuşin”
  • Portuguese: “Çavuşin”
  • Portuguese: “Chavuxine”
  • Russian: “Чавушин”
  • Turkish: “Çavuşin, Avanos”
  • Turkish: “Çavuşin”
  • Vietnamese: “Çavuşin, Avanos”
  • Vietnamese: “Çavuşin”
  • Yoruba: “Çavuşin”
  • “Çavuşin”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cavusin”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.