The largest underground city in the world to discover

Turkey recently discovered in the whole city underground, in the Cappadocia region, the Central Anatolian province of Noshahr, about 5,000 years old, and is believed to be the largest in the world

And Cappadocia known in archaeological circles as the largest number of settlements located underground, and those carved in the mountains

However, the newly discovered city, located about Noshahr hills near the city of Caesarea, make it the rest of the other human settlements under the ground, settlements, "dwarf", according to archaeologists

Says Mayor Hasan Unver, the other underground cities are nothing more than a kitchen, compared with the city's newly discovered

For his part, the President of the housing development Mohammed Turan management, in a statement to the newspaper "freedoms" Turkish daily English-speaking, the discovery was made while doing work underground to lay the foundations for the housing project was designed to develop the area

He pointed out that the passages or tunnels discovered only endemic regions that bind to a length of 7 kilometers, explaining that he had been suspended urban project when the discovery of the city

The discovery was first started in some areas close to the surface, but he did not know the true value of the discovery only recently with the continuing acts of excavations and the excavations, where they were put up to 44 projects in the region under archaeological protection

The region also included in the national cultural heritage and Turkish zones

It is noteworthy that the more human settlements underground fame in Noshahr province is composed of several layers of Cappadocia region under the ground and up to a depth of 60 meters

It is believed that Cappadocia back to the eighth century BC, remained Christians occupied it until 1923