Northern Aegean: Olive and sea
Olive groves, cheese, seafood and island vines open the bond between Northern Aegean food and landscape.
24 narratives and 32 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.
Four gateways into this world
- Produce and geography — The natural settings of olives, grapes, figs, grain, herbs, fish and dairy.
- Production and labour — Knowledge accumulated in vineyard, mill, bakery, dairy, market and home kitchen.
- Season and harvest — When, where and through which rhythm a product reaches the table.
- Migration and table memory — Traces left by moving communities in recipes, techniques and table habits.
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Story and event network
- The 1923 Population Exchange and Transformation of Ayvalık-Cunda Olive Industry
- Judgment of Paris: World's First Beauty Contest on Mount Ida (1200 BCE)
- Naval Battle of Arginusae at Kalem and Garip Islands (406 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 Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species
- From Mount Ida to Güre Thermal and Papazlık Mansions: Ida Mythology, Roman Baths, and Stone Houses
- 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
- From the Pentekonters of Phokaia to Çandarlı Castle: Eski Foça, Kyme, and Aeolian Sea Routes
- Phokaians' Mediterranean Colonization via 50-Oared Pentekonters (600 BCE)
- Construction of the Roman Parion Odeon and 15-km Aqueduct (150 CE)
- From Smintheion Apollo to Hadımoğlu Mansion and Skepsis Manuscripts: Iliad Friezes, 1795 Carved Ceiling, and Aristotle's Vault
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kaz Dağları (Ancient Mount Ida) and Sarıkız Peak
- National park and landscape layers of Mount Ida
- Ancient City of Cyzicus (Kyzikos)
- Cyzicus Ancient City Birthplace of Navigator Eudoxus and Naval Harbor
- 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