📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Early Period of Anatolian Turkish Heritage: Niksar, capital of the Danishmend Dynasty, will organize International Voluntary Work program within the scope of World Heritage for the first time. Tokat Governor's Office, Niksar Municipality, Capital Tokat People Education, Culture and Solidarity Association (BAŞTEK) and Youth Services Center Association (GSM) will organize this program in cooperation. For more information please visit the websites http://tokat.gov.tr, http://www.niksar.bel.tr/, http://www.bastekstk.com /
💼 What the programme involves
Niksar, which is on the UNESCO-World Heritage Tentative List, was the capital of the Danishmend Dynasty in 12th. and 13. centuries. In niksar there are madrasas, lodges, mosques, administrative structures, baths and memorial tombs belonging to this period. Volunteers will work to preserve and promote these artifacts from the period of the Danishmend Dynasty. They will renew the information signs for visitors of Niksara, clean the environment and help with the landscaping of the protected works. In addition, volunteers will conduct digital media studies to promote world heritage sites locally, nationally and internationally.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay at the Niksar Municipality guest house. They will be served their breakfasts, lunchs and dinners in the dining room of the guesthouse. During trips outside Niksar, lunches will be prepared as lunch boxs. Meals will be prepared by the shef in the guesthouse, and volunteers will alternately help to prepare meals, wash dishes and clean the area where meals are eaten.
📍 About the location
Niksar, one of the important centers of the ancient period, Danishmend Dynasty and Seljuk period, where nature, culture and historical wealth mingled, was established on the slopes to the northwest of niksar plain, where the Kelkit Valley expanded. Niksar is included on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative (preliminary) list with its cultural heritage witnessing the early period of Anatolian Turkish civilization. Niksar, the capital of Danishmend, one of the most important Turkish States of Anatolia, has madrasas, lodges, mosques, administrative structures, baths and monumental tombs that bear witness to the 12th and 13th centuries. This heritage owned by Niksar and its surroundings is bear the Anatolian-Turkish Civilization’s and within a broader framework, Islamic Civilization’s testimony of the scientific, social and economic developments. Yağıbasan Madrasa in the city is the first madrasa in Anatolia besides the fact that the education given here has continued its effect on Anatolian soil for centuries. Until the last period of the Ottomans the manuscripts of the professors who research or teach in this madrasa were used and the students of the professors trained in this madrasa have been taught science all over Anatolia. The Lodges, mosques and palaces owned by niksar are give information about how social and urban building is managed, how resettlement is conducted and how are the settlements is conducted during the settlement of Oğuz tribes in Anatolia. Niksar's legacy is also important in terms of showing that the meeting the social needs of Danishmend's newly resettled families and having all the structures that enable these new families to participate in social life as part of the society and revealing how fast administrative and social structures work. http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6344/
⚠️ Requirements
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