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What city is this?
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Apr-7-2013 01:56
This is a variation on a theme of Francesca's "Who am I?" thread. The rules are the same, only in this case it would probably be best if we asked one question at a time :).
I'll start:
Its history goes back more than one thousand years.
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Jun-27-2013 18:26
Oh yeah, forgot Armenia. (?? ;-). Sorry bout that. ;-) B.
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Jun-28-2013 01:32
Sorry, meant to say "at least a dozen I didn't get." Oops. ;-)
Breit
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jun-28-2013 01:45
Ba-ding!!! We're getting closer. Yes, it's in Asia Minor, specifically Turkey. Nice one, Breit!
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Lady Ruby Caplan
Well-Connected
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Jun-28-2013 02:38
Troy? City of?
And lol Briet.. all the ''stans'' :)
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luc pfeiffer
Red-Nosed
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Jun-29-2013 00:32
guess for Breit: Istanbul or Constantinople
guess for Luc: Mount Ararat or that misplaced ark thing. (i am NOT going through all those boxes looking for it, you're on your own for that one.) L
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jun-29-2013 02:16
Not Troy - though that probably comes closest, in that it's a tourist site in Turkey that used to be a city and isn't any more.
Not Istanbul/Constantinople. Don't think Mount Ararat counts as a city ruin, though I've not been there so I don't know what there is to look at.
No, I'm not going through all those boxes either. :)
Hint: the building that was particularly famous was on a list...
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Jun-29-2013 02:55
Is it Göreme?
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jun-29-2013 07:13
No, not Göreme. (Though that's a wonderful place!)
It's definitely somewhere that's no longer inhabited - tourists visit the site of where it was. There's a modern town on a different site nearby, but no longer anywhere with this name.
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Jun-29-2013 12:15
My husband visited it years (or rather decades) ago and he still talks about it :).
Could it be Pergamon?
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jun-30-2013 01:34
Not Pergamon, though it's very much that sort of place. Pergamon's further north.
It also features in the New Testament.
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