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​TURKEY - CAPPADOCIA

Silk Road and Caravanserais

The caravan routes transporting silk, china, paper, spices and precious stones from one continent to the other followed several itineraries in Asia before arriving in Turkey, which served as a bridge linking it to Europe. These caravan routes later acquired the name of silk roads and Turkey constituted the crossroad of many of these routes. Caravanserais have been used since the 10th century. Trade across Turkey in medieval Seljuk times was dependent on camel trains, which stopped by night in inns known as kervansaray or caravanserai , literally 'caravan palaces'. These buildings provided accommodation and other amenities for the merchants and stabling for their animals.