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GAZİANTEP ZEUGMA MOZAİK MÜZESİ

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40<br />

önce kurucusunun<br />

adına ithafen ‘silifke’<br />

dendi. daha sonra<br />

romalılar geldi<br />

ve o adı ‘zeugma’<br />

yani ‘köprü’ olarak<br />

değiştirdi. yüzyıllar<br />

boyunca uygarlıkların<br />

yollarının kesiştiği<br />

o köprü, şimdi dünü<br />

bugüne taşıyor. hem<br />

de dünyanın en büyük<br />

mozaik müzesi ve o<br />

müzenin gözbebeği<br />

‘çingene kızı’ ile!<br />

MEDENİYETLER KÖPRÜSÜ<br />

BRIDGE OF CIVILIZATIONS<br />

THE ANCIENT CITY OF <strong>ZEUGMA</strong>, LOCATED ON<br />

THE RIVER EUPHRATES, ORIGINALLY CALLED<br />

“SELEVKAYA EUPHRATES” (SİLİFKE) AFTER THE<br />

NAME OF ITS FOUNDER SELEVKOS NIKADOR<br />

WAS CONQUERED LATER BY THE ROMAN<br />

EMPIRE AND ITS NAME WAS CHANGED INTO<br />

<strong>ZEUGMA</strong> TO MEAN “BRIDGE-PASSAGE.” AT THE<br />

CROSSROADS OF GREAT CIVILIZATIONS FOR<br />

CENTURIES, NOWADAYS <strong>ZEUGMA</strong> IS BRIDGING<br />

THE PAST WITH THE PRESENT BY VIRTUE OF ITS<br />

MUSEUM OF MOSAICS, THE LARGEST IN THE<br />

WORLD OF ITS KIND AND, PARTICULARLY WITH<br />

THE FAMOUS GYPSY GIRL MOSAIC!

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