Pamukkale

Pamukkale is a village in the region of Turkey, famous for its hot springs, Roman spa town of Hierapolis, and white terraced pools: the village name means "cotton castle".
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: hot springs in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ecirli” and “Pamukkale Natural Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hierapolis and Theatre of Hierapolis.

Archaeological site
Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a Hellenistic Greek city in Phrygia, in southwestern , . It was founded in the 3rd century BC, on the site of a Phrygian cult center of the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele, It was famous for its hot springs, its high quality wool fabrics and dyes, and as the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.

Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.

City gate
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pamukkale and Develi.

Town
Photo: Юрій Хижняк (YuraHiz…, CC BY 3.0.
, formerly known as Akköy, is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 823 km2, and its population is 347,926. It first came into existence with the fusion of two small villages, Aziziye and Sultaniye in reference to the 19th century Ottoman sultan, founded by refugees of the Russo-Turkish War.

Village
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 1,010.

Pamukkale

Latitude
37.9198° or 37° 55′ 11″ north
Longitude
29.1219° or 29° 7′ 19″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
8G9FW49C+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 373706054
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
302903
Wiki­data ID
Q105893254
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pamukkale” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pamukkale”
  • Arabic: “باموق قلعة”
  • Armenian: “Փամուքկալե”
  • Armenian: “Փամուքքալե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pamukkale”
  • Basque: “Pamukkale”
  • Belarusian: “Памукале”
  • Bengali: “পামুক্কালে”
  • Breton: “Pamukkale”
  • Bulgarian: “Памуккале”
  • Catalan: “Hieràpolis de Frígia”
  • Catalan: “Pamukkale”
  • Cebuano: “Pamukkale White Terraces”
  • Chinese: “帕穆克卡莱”
  • Chinese: “棉花堡”
  • Corsican: “Pamukkale”
  • Croatian: “Pamukkale”
  • Czech: “Pamukkale”
  • Danish: “Pamukkale”
  • Dutch: “Hieropolis”
  • Dutch: “Pamukkale”
  • Esperanto: “Pamukkale”
  • Finnish: “Pamukkale”
  • French: “Pamukale”
  • French: “Pamukkale”
  • Galician: “Pamukkale”
  • Georgian: “ფამუქ-ქალე”
  • German: “Hierapolis”
  • German: “Pamukkale”
  • Greek: “Παμούκαλε”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mièn-fâ-páu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pamukkale”
  • Hebrew: “פמוקלה”
  • Indonesian: “Pamukkale”
  • Italian: “Pamukkale”
  • Japanese: “パムッカレ”
  • Japanese: “ヒエラポリス-パムッカレ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pamukkale”
  • Korean: “파묵칼레”
  • Kurdish: “Pamukkale”
  • Latvian: “Pamukkale”
  • Lithuanian: “Pamukalė”
  • Low German: “Pamukkale”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pamukkale”
  • Macedonian: “Памуккале”
  • Malayalam: “പമുക്കേൽ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pamukkale”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pamukkale”
  • Norwegian: “Hierapolis”
  • Norwegian: “Pamukkale”
  • Persian: “پاموک‌کاله”
  • Polish: “Hierapolis”
  • Polish: “Pamukkale”
  • Portuguese: “Hierápolis-Pamukkale”
  • Portuguese: “Pamukkale”
  • Romanian: “Pamukkale”
  • Russian: “Памуккале”
  • Sakizaya: “Mem-hua-paw”
  • Serbian: “Памукале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pamukkale”
  • Slovak: “Pamukkale”
  • Slovenian: “Pamukkale”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاموک‌کاله”
  • Spanish: “Hierápolis”
  • Spanish: “Pamukkale”
  • Swahili: “Pamukkale”
  • Swedish: “Pamukkale”
  • Tahitian: “Pamukkale”
  • Tamil: “பமுக்கலெ”
  • Tatar: “Памуккале”
  • Thai: “ปามุกกาเล”
  • Turkish: “Pamukkale”
  • Ukrainian: “Памуккале”
  • Urdu: “پاموک قلعہ”
  • Uzbek: “Pamukkale”
  • Vietnamese: “Pamukkale”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pamukkale”
  • Wu Chinese: “棉花堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “棉花堡”
  • “Национални парк Памукале”

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