Northern Aegean: A wind-shaped coast
Islands, coastal towns, gulf and foothills carry different tempos and sensitivities. Current sea, fire and conservation conditions are part of planning.
32 narratives and 40 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.
Four gateways into this world
- Living settlements — Neighbourhood, village and district scales where historic fabric still meets everyday life.
- Landscape and season — Changing climate, production, fire and visiting conditions from coast to highland.
- Movement and pace — How ferries, mountain roads, plain crossings and walking scale change the experience.
- Conservation and current context — Source-led links from living heritage to the present without making unsupported access claims.
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Story and event network
- The Port of Alexandria Troas and Saint Paul's Passage to Macedonia
- Judgment of Paris: World's First Beauty Contest on Mount Ida (1200 BCE)
- Hiding of Aristotle's and Theophrastus's Manuscripts in Skepsis Underground Vault (200 BCE)
- From Ayvalık Küçükköy Yenihori to Hacıaslanlar Yörük Village and Alaçam Mountains: Sarımsak Stone Studios, Kazdağı Ethnography, and 1,600m Timber Houses
- Transformation of Ayvalık Küçükköy (Yenihori) into a Smart Art Village (2015)
- From Balıkesir Cyzicus Eudoxus Navigation to İzmir Smyrna Quintus Epic and Colophon Hermesianax Elegiacs: Indian Ocean Navigation, Trojan War Epic, and Elegiac Love Poetry
- From Bolayır Tomb to Bozcaada Castle and Gökçeada Dereköy: Conqueror of Rumelia Gazi Süleyman Pasha, Tenedos Moated Walls, and 1,950 Stone Houses
- From Domatia Greek Stone Houses to Karina Pier and Thebae Walls: Mount Mykale Mansions, Lagoon Fisheries, and Hellenistik Fortresses
- Olives in the Edremit Gulf: Work from Harvest to Table across Three Districts
- From the Edremit Gulf to the Dikili Islands: Adramytteion, the Gömeç Olive Plain, and Kalem Island
- Population Exchange of Eski Doğanbey (Domatia) and Trade at Karina Customs Pier (1923 CE)
- Gazi Süleyman Pasha's Crossing of Dardanelles to Rumelia and Conquest of Bolayır (1354)
- From Granicus Battlefield to Lampsakos Philosophy and Agonya Forests: Alexander's Victory, Anaxagoras' Exile, and Mount Ida Timber Houses
- From Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species
- From the Hellespont Strait to the Fortresses and Ewers of Çanakkale: Sestos, Kilitbahir, and Pottery Craft
- From Mount Ida to Güre Thermal and Papazlık Mansions: Ida Mythology, Roman Baths, and Stone Houses
- Naval Expedition of the Indus River and Red Sea by Admiral Scylax of Caryanda and Writing of Periplus (515 BC)
- From Muğla Bodrum Scylax Explorations to Balıkesir Xenocles Oratory and Aydın Nysa Strabo Geography: Maritime Exploration, Roman Oratory, and World Geography
- From Parion Odeon to Priapos Wine Harbor and Kemer Aqueducts: Colony City, Vineyard Port, and Roman Aqueducts
- Pergamon, Halicarnassus, Miletus: paths of knowledge
- From the Pentekonters of Phokaia to Çandarlı Castle: Eski Foça, Kyme, and Aeolian Sea Routes
- Phokaians' Mediterranean Colonization via 50-Oared Pentekonters (600 BCE)
- Export of Proconnesian Marble and Sarcophagi to Roman and Byzantine Capitals (500 BCE)
- From Smintheion Apollo to Hadımoğlu Mansion and Skepsis Manuscripts: Iliad Friezes, 1795 Carved Ceiling, and Aristotle's Vault
- Composition of the 14-Book Trojan War Epic Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna (350 AD)
- Stone above, water below: Aristotle's brief stay at Assos
- From Tenedos to Bozcaada: visible shore, hidden fleet, present crossing
- From Thyateira Purple Cloth to Demirci Carpets and Darkale Stone Houses: Seven Churches, Wool Rugs, and Tarhala Cliff Houses
- Harbors of Troas and Forests of Mount Ida: North Aegean Networks from the Dardanelles to Kapıdağ
- From Yağcıbedir Carpets to Hisarköy Roman Springs and Dursunbey Cave Waters: Wool Knots, 98°C Baths, and Cave Springs
- Settlement of Yağcıbedir Yörüks in Sındırgı Region and Birth of Natural Dye Carpet Weaving (1700 CE)
- Scent of Olives and Exchange Memory: Ayvalık Stone Oil Mills, Cunda Streets, and Roots of Antandros
Connected cultural inventory
- Adramyttium Ancient City Birthplace of Orator Xenocles and Rhetorical Assembly
- Ancient City of Adramytteion and Burhaniye Ören
- Ancient City and Roman Harbour of Alexandria Troas
- Altınoluk Papazlık Village and Abdullah Efendi Mansion
- Ancient City of Antandros and Altınoluk
- Ancient City of Assos and Behramkale
- The acropolis, harbour and Behramkale coast of Assos
- Ayvacık Gülpınar Smintheion Temple of Apollo Smintheus
- Ayvalık Küçükköy (Yenihori) 19th-Century Greek Stone Houses and Art Studios
- Ayvalık Olive Industrial Landscape
- Bayramiç Hadımoğlu Mansion and Ethnography Museum
- Bayramiç Kurşunlu Ancient City of Skepsis and Aristotle Vault
- Biga Granicus River Historic Battlefield and Victory Plain
- Bigadiç Hisarköy 98°C Roman Thermal Baths and Ancyra
- Bozcaada Tenedos Castle and Vasilaki Vineyards
- Cunda Island (Alibey Island)
- Dursunbey Alaçam Mountains 1,600m Altitude Fir Forests and Timber Mansions
- Dursunbey Su Çıktı Karst Spring Sanctuary and Plane Trees
- Edremit Hacıaslanlar Kazdağı Yörük Ethnography Village and Stone Olive Mills
- Gelibolu Bolayır 1354 Tomb of Gazi Süleyman Pasha
- Gelibolu Fortress, Çimpe Castle, and Gallipoli
- Gökçeada Imbros Dereköy (Schinoudi) and Historic Laundry
- Gömeç Kızçiftlik (Trikopis) and Coastal Olive Plain
- Güre Roman Thermal Baths and Aphrodite Spring
- Havran Koca Seyit Village and Historic Terzioğlu Mansion
- Kadırga Bay
- Kale-i Sultaniye (Sultaniye Castle), Ancient Abydos, and Çanakkale Ceramics
- Kaz Dağları (Ancient Mount Ida) and Sarıkız Peak
- National park and landscape layers of Mount Ida
- Kilitbahir Fortress, Ancient Sestos, and Eceabat
- Ancient City of Cyzicus (Kyzikos)
- Cyzicus Ancient City Birthplace of Navigator Eudoxus and Naval Harbor
- Lapseki Ancient City of Lampsakos and Anaxagoras School of Philosophy
- Manyas Bird Sanctuary National Park and Daskyleion Persian Satrapy
- Marmara Island Proconnesian Ancient Marble Quarries and Saraylar Museum
- Ancient City of Parion and Roman Odeon
- Parion Kemer Ancient Aqueducts
- Priapos (Karabiga) Coastal Fortress and Wine Dock
- Sındırgı Yağcıbedir Yörük Hand-Woven Carpet Centers
- Yenice Kazdağları Agonya Valley Linden Forests and Timber Architecture