Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks are the old newspapers, periodicals, and schoolbooks written in "karamanlidika", Turkish in Greek script. All this reflects the lifestyle of the Greek population which lived in the depths of Asia Minor, particularly in Karvali in Cappadocia. There are also some showcases displaying artefacts of the culture of the Hettae, an ancient culture which developed in Cappadocia. The museum runs educational programmes for schoolchildren, mainly on the theme of rugs and rug-making. Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks Nea Karvali is a village just above the Kavala–Xanthi old national highway, about 8 km from Kavala in East Macedonia, Greece.
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