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Would you like to attend class in a school with a ceiling that opens to the sky? The Tokat and Niksar Yağıbasan Medresesi are exactly such fascinating places. In these very old schools, students learned important knowledge while gazing at the stars through an opening in the center of the ceiling.One of Anatolia’s First UniversitiesMedreses were in fact similar to today’s universities. The Yağıbasan Medresesi is especially significant as one of the first schools established by the Turks in Anatol

The Hittites attracted attention as an Indo-European people when they first appeared on the historical stage in Anatolia. Although their origins cannot be definitively established, the prevailing view based on linguistic and archaeological evidence is that the Hittites migrated into Anatolia from the Caucasus region around the end of the third millennium BCE. This migration was a long-term transformation that brought profound changes to the ethnic and cultural fabric of Anatolia.Upon arriving in