Uçhisar

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Uçhisar, 5 kilometers from Nevşehir center, is the largest and most beautiful fairy chimney seen from all over Cappadocia. The summit of the castle is the only place where Cappadocia can be seen from a bird’s eye view. All the valleys from Güvercinlik Valley to Avanos, Ortahisar Castle, Göreme Town, Göreme Open Air Museum, Kılıçlar Valley, Kızılçukur, Güllüdere, Çavuşin, Boztepe, Aktepe, Avanos, that is, the whole Cappadocia are under your feet.

There are many carved jars, carved tombs and large cisterns at the summit of the castle. Looking down from the castle to the north, you can see the Walnut fairy chimneys, Nevşehir and Oylu Mountain in the west, the new Uçhisar just in front of the castle, and the summit of Hasan Mountain in the far southwest.

Uçhisar Uçhisar Castle is the only place where Erciyes and Hasan Mountain can be seen together. The place where the creator of Mount Erciyes, that is, the Cappadocia Region, can be seen best is Uçhisar Castle. Since the Roman period, many rooms, houses, shelters, warehouses, cisterns, tombs, and cellars have been carved into it, and it has been an important defense point against Arab raids. Large stone cannonballs used for defense against attackers were kept on it. Uchisar Castle, which was used both as a watchtower and a defense castle, maintained its importance during the Seljuk and Principalities periods. (12-14th centuries) The castle, which was generally the border region of the principalities, started to be called "Uçhisar" due to its location as the eastern border of the Seljuks, the western border of the Kadı Burhanettin Principality, and the eastern border of the Karamanoğulları. Başhisar (Ürgüp), Ortahisar and Uçhisar Castles, which were established on the highest points of the region, were the three important protection points of Nevşehir during the Seljuk Period. In this period, a dense population lived around the Uçhisar Castle, which was a "frontier principality". It is known that the brother of the Bey of Kayseri in these periods was the Bey of Uçhisar. Ottoman Principality II. After dominating the region with Beyazıt in 1398, Uçhisar Castle was built by the II. It is known that he surrendered to Beyazıt. In the first census conducted in 1530, it was determined that approximately 3 thousand people lived in Uçhisar. It was lived in and around it until the 1960s.