{"id":6941,"date":"2018-10-09T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2020-05-20T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:20:32","slug":"1500-year-old-byzantine-church-found-in-turkey-edirne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/1500-year-old-byzantine-church-found-in-turkey-edirne\/","title":{"rendered":"1500-year old Byzantine church found in Turkey Edirne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/turkey-edirne-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"350\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/turkey-edirne-church.jpg 863w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/turkey-edirne-church-340x191.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/turkey-edirne-church-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/turkey-edirne-church-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A 1500-year-old Byzantine church was found during excavation in Turkey&#8217;s northwestern Edirne province.<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Engin Beksac from Trakya University&#8217;s Art History Department is heading the excavation team in the ancient site of Sinankoy.<\/p>\n<p>Beksac told reporters on Monday that they have unearthed remnants of a 1500-year-old church during excavations which has features of the Byzantine civilization.<\/p>\n<p>He said evidence shows that the church was built around 500 AD and it is an early Byzantine period building.<\/p>\n<p>Beksac said their team unearthed the base of the church, where the footing stones of the building are in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial evidence shows us that it is one of the oldest churches of Thrace,&#8221; Beksac said.<\/p>\n<p>Thrace is a region of Turkey in country&#8217;s northwest, which comprises of Edirne, Tekirdag and Kirklareli provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Beksac said there are remnants from ancient Thracians in Sinankoy, or ancient Prabadon, and it was also an important Byzantine city in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1500-year-old Byzantine church was found during excavation in Turkey&#8217;s northwestern Edirne province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,137,7,7867],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-sectoral","category-tourism","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8032,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/8032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}