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date: 16 May 2025

Göreme, 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Author(s):
Annabel Jane WhartonAnnabel Jane Wharton

a valley in Cappadocia, the site of a number of medieval rock-cut refectories, mills, cells, and painted chapels attesting to a thriving monastic enclave for which there is no textual documentation.... ...

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