SILK ROADS IN TURKEY, GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN

Silk Roads in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan



Silk Roads In Turkey, Georgia And Azerbaijan

Silk Road in Turkey

This is a know fact of the silk industry has played an important role in the lives of many of the nation since the days of antiquity. This industry has become more important because it came to our days. Silk and spices from the Far East enjoyed a prominent role in international relations. Silk has also enabled the West familiar with the East. This was initiated mainly by traders who travel in both directions.

The Egyptians followed by the Romans, buy silk from the Chinese and began to be used by Westerners and in 753 BC

Studies reveal that it was the monks who first brought from China to Byzantium buds in 555 AD, the expansion of trade cocoon of Byzantium to Greece and from there to Italy, Spain and France since the seventh century onwards.

This ancient trade route linking China with the West originated in Xi'an, in fact it was a caravan route and played an important role in the exchange of goods and thought between the two great civilizations of the time, China and Rome. The most important point of convergence of this road was 6,400 km long Kashgar.

The caravans of merchants or follow the path that leads to the Caspian Sea, through the valleys of Afghanistan, or climbed the mountains of Karakorum, and came to Anatolia via Iran. Anatolia, the caravan proceeded to Europe by sea or by the Silk Road, which crosses the region of Thrace. At the time of the Mongols in the ages 13 and 14. Took Marco Polo's silk route to China. Even today, the Silk Road offers an extraordinary range of historical and cultural wealth still has the marks of cultures, religions and races of 2000 years standing. This covers trade majestic defeat of two continents. Its vastness, harsh geographical structure and mysteries still bear traces of man's struggle with nature during their long and exhausting trip.

The caravan routes of transport of silk, porcelain, paper, spices and precious stones from one continent to another followed various routes in Asia before arriving in Anatolia, which serves as a bridge connecting Europe through Thrace region . These caravan routes later acquired the name of the silk routes and Anatolia is the crossing these routes. Big cities lying on the Silk Road Anatolia in the north: Trabzon, Gumushane, Erzurum, Sivas, Tokat, Amasya, Kastamonu, Adapazari, Izmit Istanbul and Edirne and in the south, Mardin, Diyarbakir, Adiyaman , Malatya, Kahramanmaras, Kayseri, Nevsehir, Konya, Isparta, Antalya and Denizli. Another frequently used route is known to be the one between Erzurum, Malatya, Kayseri, Kirsehir, Ankara, Bilecik, Bursa, Iznik, Izmit and Istanbul.

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Apart from this connection to the earth, the sea routes were also used. In the Black Sea: The North Road passed Batumi to Trabzon, Sinop, Istanbul, Bursa, Gallipoli and came to Venice and the Mediterranean, extending from Syria to Antioch, ...