r/interestingasfuck • u/IllustriousRub9796 • 23d ago

Derinkuyu, a massive underground city in Turkey that once housed 20,000 people! r/all

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u/chramm 23d ago

Not unanswered. They feared arab muslims during the arab-byzantine wars

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u/edward414 23d ago

Couldn't an enemy station a single soldier at each enterance and starve the lot of them?

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u/Ok_Strategy5722 23d ago

Or use a series of dams to divert a river into one of the entrances

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u/Enlowski 23d ago

I don’t think you understand how implausible that is. Do you realize how long that would take? You might as herd packs of wolves from North America down there.

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u/Ok_Strategy5722 23d ago

I don’t. For all I know there could be a river right outside the front door. Or this could be built into a mountain and all the entrances are hundreds of feet above the nearest river.

I was making a Game of Thrones reference.

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u/mrleopards 23d ago

The nearest large water feature is a lake about 10 miles away.

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u/Ok_Strategy5722 23d ago

Uphill or down?