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4 OLD TOWN
Hundreds of 160- to 180-year-old Ottoman and Greek stone houses stand on the nar-
row streets of Bergama old town (
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. Greek, Jewish, Muslim and Armenian
communities lived side by side here during the Ottoman Empire, and there are old
churches, mosques and a synagogue, as well as three old bridges.
5 ÇUKUR HAN
This 14th-century caravanserai
(Barbaros Mahallesi)
in the historic Ottoman bazaar is
Bergama's only well-preserved caravanserai. Its 28 rooms provided accommodation
for traders who came from other places with goods and animals. The lower floor was a
depot, barn and workplace, while the traders ate and slept upstairs.
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