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Come and join a multi-facetted event and contribute to shaping the face of contemporary history education. Learn, inspire, share, develop and listen with 200 peers and experts. Use this chance to see education from manifold perspectives and profit from taking part in this multinational event. Offer your own workshop, highlight your own teaching material, listen and participate. Our Annual Conference is a unique professional training open to history, citizenship and social studies educators from Europe and beyond.
Turkey has witnessed at least 6000 years of civililzations, that is at the crossroads of East and West, and that is on the path to joining the European Union. One can explore many fascinating cultures ranging from the ancient settlements of the Nevalı Çori, Göbekli Tepe and Mersin to the Hittite, Phrygian, Lydian and Ionian cultures until the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the modern contemporary Turkish history.
EUROCLIO and the Association of History Educators in Turkey offer a unique insight into the challenges of teaching history in Turkey today, offering room for debates and reflections. There will be a unique opportunity to discuss these challenges with Turkish History and Social Science Educators from all levels and regions.
Since 2007 EUROCLIO has engaged with Educators in Turkey in different projects, including study visits, network meetings, professional in-service training and finally the production of innovative teaching material. The recent publication and website of the latest EUROCLIO/Matra Project 
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It is important to be given the time and space to reflect and to connect to colleagues and peers. Lifelong Learning is more than a policy term on education budgets. At the conference, six days are filled with a variety of activities ranging from key-note lectures from world renowned scholars to practitioners and researchers engaging each other and the audience in panel discussions. Also topic-based small discussion groups led and practice-oriented workshops led by participants themselves, where concentration and dedication levels are high are mixed in with cultural city tours, and an entertaining and engaging social programme for more relaxed modes of participation are organized. The 19th Annual Conference in Antalya will follow the highly evaluated format of its predecessors. A guarantee for plenty of space for interaction and active participation. All together, an enriching and thought-provoking experience
Myra was a leading city of the Lycian Union and surpassed Xanthos in early Byzantine times to become the capital city of Lycia. Most of the ancient city is now covered by Demre. Strabo mentioned it as one of the six remarkable cities of Lycia. The city is well known for its amphitheatre (the largest in Lycia) and the plethora of rock-cut tombs carved in the cliff above the theatre. Myra once had a great temple of the goddess Artemis Eleuthera, which was built on large grounds with beautiful gardens. In Roman times the Emperor Germanicus and his wife Agrippina visited Myra, so did Emperor Hadrian. In honour of the visit of the emperor Germanicus and his wife, Myranians set the statutes of both the emperor and empress in the harbour of the city. Myra was the place where St. Paul met his followers on his way to Rome. The Theater of Myra was constructed during the period when it became the centre of the diocese. The Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II made Myra the capital of the Byzantine Eparchy Lycia and maintained its role as a religious centre. St. Nicholas was a popular bishop at Myra in the 4th century AD. The city fell to the caliph Harun ar-Rashid in 808 AD and was mostly abandoned by the 11thcentury.
Kaleköy literally "Castle's village" in Turkish is a fishing village of the Demre district in the Antalya Province, its buildings mingling with ancient and medieval structures. In ancient times, it was known as “Simena”. Access to this tow is possible only by sea. The top of the village is dominated by a well-preserved castle built by the Knights of Rhodes partially upon ancient Lycian foundations. Inside the castle there is the smallest amphitheatre of Lycia. The Byzantine castle was to fight the pirates which nested in Kekova. From the castle one can face the Medditerranean and Kekova Island. The west part of the castle is surrounded by rock tombs and Roman stone wall. At the eastern end of the village is a Lycian necropolis with a cluster of some very nice sarcophagi overlooking the sea and surrounded by ancient olive trees.
ancient city in Pamphylia in Asia Minor located in the east of Antalya on the river Eurymedon. The Greek city of Aspendos was one of the first cities in the region to strike coinage under its own name. It remained for a time under Lycian hegemony and Persian domination. Alexander the Great marched into Aspendos in 333 B.C. During the wars that followed the city fell alternately under the control of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, later falling into the hands of the Kingdom of Pergamum. The Romans pillaged Aspendos. At the beginning of the thirteenth century it became a settlement by the Seljuk Turks. Aspendos is popular with its best-preserved antique theatre built by Greek architect Zenon. Nowadays this theatre is hosting the Annual Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival organized by Turkish Opera and Ballet. 
Perge commonly pronounced like “per-geh” was the capital of the Pamphylia region meaning “Land of Tribes” and nowadays is known as the province of Antalya in the South-western Mediterranean coast of Turkey. According to Strabo, the city was founded after the Trojan War by colonists from Argos under the leadership of heroes named Mopsos and Calchas. Perge was under Persian rule until the arrival of Alexander the Great and later fell under Seleucid sovereignty. Perge became in 46 A.D the setting of an event important to the Christian world as St. Paul delivered a sermon. Perge lost its remaining power in the wake of the mid-seventh century Arab raids. At this time some residents of the city migrated to Antalya. Perge is also popular as the home city of the outstanding ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga. Nowadays the remaining part from the city is a large site of ancient ruins in the East of Antalya coast. A large part of Perge is encircled by walls that in some places go back to the Hellenistic period. Today the ancient history and archaeological sites of the city attract many tourists to this place.
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Report of EUROCLIO 19th Annual Conference available now
Only several months ago something remarkable took place in Antalya, Turkey. During 6 days I met 200 History Educators from 50 countries. It was the EUROCLIO 19th Annual Conference & Professional Training and Development Course. This was not your average conference. Sure there were interesting lectures. Indeed, there were various engaging panels. Yes, there were visits to nice sites and, no doubt, there was a large amount of fantastic workshops on offer. But a good conference is more than its programme. What made my days in Antalya special is the participation of so many people from so many different backgrounds who were able to come together as History Education Professionals to work on how they all teach and deal with History. What made our days outstanding is the unique opportunity for International Cooperation on a subject that is constantly put forward as a prerogative of a Nation. Many documents speak of “Capacity Building”, and in this light, the capacity of hundreds of History Educators to come together, based on professional and volunteering support, is something that deserves continued support. This is what I want to convince you of in my report.
 2012-04 - Antalya AC2012 Looking at History through a Variety of Lenses.pdf | 2405 Kb |
The conference was a great success, and this success came out of professional, stimulating, friendly and multicultural environment and engaging programme contributed actively by the History, Heritage, Citizenship Educators, politicians and officials from more than 45 countries of the world. During 6 days of the conference, around 200 participants came together to actively share their knowledge and experiences with each other. They discussed and reflected on the notions of multiperspectvity and critical thinking, the common challenges and contexts, shared and diverse experiences in History Education in their countries. The conference activities gave them a unique possibility to observe and share different experiences with international colleagues, and bring back their homes, new ideas and new methods in History Education. Albeit diversity of ethnicities, nationalities and experiences, conference participants were excellently intermingled with each other and right on place new cooperation opportunities were established.