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GöremeDerinkuyu

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Narrated by The Chronicler 35 km · about 36 min · 7 stories

Cappadocia above ground and below: the abandoned cave village of Çavuşin, the Hittite and Phrygian layers, the expulsion of the Cappadocian Greeks, and Derinkuyu — an underground city for thousands, with rolling stone doors and air shafts eighteen stories deep.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    The Abandoned Village of Çavuşin

  2. 2
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    Nevşehir's Byzantine Foundations

  3. 3
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    The Hittite and Phrygian Roots

  4. 4
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    Inside the Nevşehir Museum

  5. 5
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    The Expulsion of Cappadocian Greeks

  6. 6
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    Life inside Mazi Underground City

  7. 7
    Nevşehir Merkez, Nevşehir

    Derinkuyu's Defensive Underground Engineering

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.