The name Zelve is Turkish meaning "the pointed stick fitted on the wooden yoke of an ox harnessed to an ox cart".
Located behind the valley where the ruins of Zelve lie, are unque rock formations called fairy Chimneys, today called Pasabaglari, and a chapel built in honour of Saint Simeo in the 5th century and a place of calvary.
The Zelve ruins are on the northern slope of Aktepe in frond of Pasabaglari.
This is the place in cappadoccia where the conic fairy chimneys are densest. Zelve was being inhabited until recently and served as one of the important settlement and religious centres during the Byzantine era.
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