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    The Fascinating Ancient History of Northern Cyprus



    An intense day of traveling across the disputed country of Northern Cyprus, finding a lot of incredible historical places along the way. You can watch Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eCLXJPmszo
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    32 Comments

    1. Anonymous on

      At least they have churches in Northern Cyprus. How many mosques and Muslim religious sites are there in Cyprus? I bet you there are fewer than the churches in Northern Cyprus.

    5. RovexHD on

      Northern Cyprus is more interesting than I thought, and I casually looked into the place before. Kudos on bringing these videos to us.

    10. Elizabeth Craig on

      Another great video. That mosaic floor so intricate, must have taken long time to make so perfect. When you were driving I noticed that huge storm ⛅️ but you were busy looking around. So it turned into a Medicane, but I bet it was refreshing.😊

    11. Cindy Balog on

      LuvUrAJourneyman. Cyprus is so moving in history my whole body is witnessing this collaps in history we live2day. WarzthruReligion now we have cloned fakfalseverything. luvtravelingwithU,Blessing2u!

    19. Jadeja Gk on

      Hi Gabe

      Greetings of the day
      I see ur videos first time at back 6 ya 7 years ago and thought iff I travel another country is good , then I see so many other travel youthuber video but ur first travel vloger for me and happy to inform you that last day I came back india after 48 days trip SEA ( vieatnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia)

      Thankyou Gabrial 😊

    21. Mike Marios on

      There no such a country like “Nothern Cyprus”…. This an occupied place by Turks…No country in the whole world recognizes that…. Only Turks….

    22. Marios Antoniou on

      Turkish occupied area of north Cyprus, used to be Greek for 3000 years, until 1974
      when the Turkish troops occupied the region and forced the Greek Cypriot habits to flee to the south.
      You can see ancient Greek and Byzantine ruins everywhere, but not a single Turkish old monument.

    24. Some John Doe on

      169th ! I'm on 🔥, careful around the sprinklers SomeJohnDoe.
      Thanks for the video Gabriel, highly enjoyable, this part of the world was unknown to me.
      Much appreciation. 🙏

    25. M N on

      27:40 that’s not a church, that’s a mosque.
      Also, the ancient Agia Trias Basilica you went to is 100% Greek. You could have figured it out by its name Agia Trias which means Holy Trinity in Greek, and I know you have come across way too many churches and villages in Greece named Agios and Agia which means Saint/Holy. Too easy.
      The Turks generally try to rebrand everything Greek into Roman whenever they get a chance for obvious reasons in their effort to diminish the Greek heritage of the lands they hold, so when there is an obvious site named Agia you know it was too Greek for them to even try to rebrand as Roman.

    26. Coleen Oliva on

      Hi Gabriel, just curious why the Greek islands, and now Cypress (and Palestine too) seem like ghost towns. As I think about, in many of the countries you have visited in the past 6 months or so buildings appear abandoned and so few people on the streets, sidewalks etc. It seems very eery to me. Do you think it's aftermath of covid, or? (Also, may I just say how awesome your tank tops are?) Thank you so very much for posting such great videos, and often! As always, stay safe.

    29. lehoff on

      The Turkish are a secular society and so it's not really traditional Islam, the Turks drink alcohol, eat pork etc… Erdogan is trying to push it harder though.

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