The human settlement dates back to the Paleolithic period. The lands inhabited by the Hittites became one of the most important centers of Christianity in later periods. The houses and churches carved into the rocks have made the region a gigantic shelter for Christians fleeing the oppression of the Roman Empire.
The geographer Strabo also mentions the boundaries of Cappadocia in his book Geographika (Geography-Anatolia XIII, XIII, XIV) written during the Roman Emperor Agustus. According to this tariff, Cappadocia, the Taurus Mountains in the south, Aksaray in the west, Malatya in the east and the Black Sea in the north. Nowadays, the region called Cappadocia is concentrated on an area of 250 km² of geographic formations and is spread over Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Niğde, Aksaray and Kayseri. The most visited regions are; Uchisar, Goreme, Avanos, Urgup, Derinkuyu, Kaymakli and Ihlara. [1]
Cappadocia region is a place where nature and history are integrated. While the geographical events were creating the fairy chimneys, in the historical process, people also carved houses, churches and monasteries into these fairy chimneys and decorated them with frescoes and carried the traces of thousands of years of civilizations to our day. The written history of Cappadocia, where human settlements date back to the Paleolithic period, begins with the Hittites. Cappadocia is one of the important intersections of the Silk Road, which has hosted trade colonies throughout history and established a commercial and social bridge between countries.
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