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@love2design: you don't need my comment - your decision. but please do not interfere with what is or is not my purpose because you have no idea what that might be.

just repeating endlessly how beautiful the fotos are and Ephesos as well does not really give any new insights apart from seeing how many readers apart from oneself like the article. When reading a comment section about a topic I find interesting I am not looking for the "how amazing/lovely/fantastic" comments because they do not give me any input/information apart from sharing probably my own opinion.

I was just trying to add an aspect that had until then not been mentioned.

appreciating beauty is certainly not depending on knowing the background and origin of what we perceive as beautiful, but it doesn't hurt either to be able to place things. Just like furniture or architecture from the 20th century is divided into styles / designs / schools the same goes for antique architecture. Therefore, I still believe that it is on topic that Ephesos is Turkish only since the end of the 11th century whereas the Hellenic settlement at that point was more than 5,000 years old, which says in itself that the antique settlement we see today has no architectural influence from the osmanic culture.

Sorry to spoil somewhat the enthusiasm about Turkey's superior knowledge about design, housing, taste...etc. already centuries ago: the antique Ephesos is a Greek city, which is nowadays situated in Turkey due to historical changes. But the ruins and reassembled homes in the terraces we see today are supreme examples of the Hellenic culture and has nothing whatsoever to do with Turkish / Osmanic heritage. Anyway, Ephesos is totally worth seeing - I went twice and was dead impressed.