There are many underground cities in Cappadocia, and the largest of them can be visited and seen. Although we only know 36 of them, there are 150-200 underground cities underground in Cappadocia. The underground cities of Cappadocia are likened to the roots of a tree, extend underground and connect with each other, the mystery of most of them has not yet been solved.
Given that under all the villages and cities in the Cappadocia region, settlements are carved, the total area of \u200b\u200bwhich is 25,000 km², there may be more underground cities than expected.
The underground cities of Cappadocia were built by carving rocks into volcanic tufa. It is not yet known with what tools people descended into the depths, where such large settlements were created in antiquity, when there was no technology yet. When dating them, traces left by ancient civilizations are used.
Since Cappadocia has been subjected to frequent attacks and raids over its thousand-year history, almost every house has rooms and secret passages in which you can hide in case of danger. This moved village settlements above ground underground, creating underground villages and underground cities with tunnels connecting villages. Supply tanks, wells, chimneys that ensure uninterrupted ventilation, toilets and places of worship that give shelter to thousands of people for a long time without ever going outside, are also proof of the perfect design of the underground cities of Cappadocia, which often makes one wonder: “Is there any in this case, the efforts of UFOs?”
The first written source about the underground cities of Cappadocia is “Anabasis” by Xenephon (“The Return of Tens of Thousands”). Xenephon is a Greek historian who participated in the army of Isparta in the campaign against the Persian king Artaxerxes and was the first war correspondent in history. In his chronicle, which he wrote in 400 BC, he wrote that Isparta’s army was tired and remained in the underground cities of Kaymakli and Derinkuyu. The rock carvings of the Hittite civilization, which was founded 2000 years before the birth of Jesus, and the underground tunnels they built for defense, also prove the antiquity of its past. Then the first Christians come, and the cities grow deeper and wider to protect themselves from Arab raids and stock up on food. According to Martin Urban, a German by birth who came to Cappadocia in the 1970s and did extensive research, the age of the underground cities of Cappadocia is BC. 7-8. It goes back centuries.
Derinkuyu Underground City
Although now 8 floors are open, which goes to 50 meters, but if they are all cleared, then the actual depth will reach 85 meters, and this is already 12-13 floors. This underground city of Cappadocia, which has a cleared and accessible area with a total area of ​​2.5 km, got its name from 52 wells in it. These water wells go to a depth of 60-70 meters, providing both water needs and ventilation shafts. Some of these chimneys are not connected to the ground, so that the enemy, who could not go down during the siege in the area, would not put poison in the water. This is one of the reasons why this underground city of Cappadocia, so protected and equipped with a natural ventilation system, has no technological explanation.