A beautiful old door from an old Greek house in Sinasos village (nowadays called "Mustafapasa"), Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey.
A beautiful old door from an old Greek house (Serafeim Rizos' mansion) in Sinasos village (nowadays called "Mustafapasa"), Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey. Above the door there is an inscription in Greek saying: "Ανθρωπε ει μεν φίλος πέφυκας είσελθε χαίρων. Ειδέ εχθρός & επίβουλος, πόρρω της πύλης ταύτης. Σήμερον εμού και αύριον ετέρου και ουδέποτε τινός.Εν έτει 1853" Free translation: "Man, if you are coming like a friend, come inside with pleasure. If coming with hostile and treachoures feelings, stay away of this gate. Today mine, tomorrow someone else's, never anybody's. In year 1853" Sinasos was also called "The Athens of Cappadocia", because before the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1924, it was considered the cultural "capital" of the Greeks of Cappadocia. The Orthodox/Greeks that had been living for centuries in that region, where sent to Greece in 1923-24, being part of the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece, according to the Treaty of Laussane. The same thing happened the other way around, with the Muslim/Turks that had been living for centuries in Greek Territory, which took the road to Turkey. Many of the Greeks living in Turkey, were only Turkish-speaking and when they came to Greece they were received with suspicion and depreciative characterizations and the same thing happened in Turkey, with many of the Turks that were only Greek-speaking. More than half of the Greek population of Cappadocia were Turkish speaking (but they wrote the Turkish language with Greek characters, a "language" often called "karamanlidika"). The rest of them were speaking both languages, Turkish and Greek, among them the most "clear" Greek, could be heard in Sinasos, a small town with great economic and cultural development, especially in the 19th century. Around that time its population was about people ( Greeks).
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Location: Sinasos ("Mustafapasa") village, Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey
Photo credit: © Hercules Milas / Alamy / Afripics
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