ҿ The Lohan Cevizli village, 30 kilometers southwest of Turkey's 6th largest city, Gaziantep, is one of the largest and most developed villages in the south-east region of Turkey, it is also the oldest known continually inhabited village in the world with habitation stretching back to the stone age, over nine thousand years ago. Most of its residents are members of descendants of ancient Turkmen clans. Geographically, the village sits on the slope of a small hill, opposite a much larger hill with a spring water stream passing between the two hills. In times past the region was vastly wooded and green. Now, most of the greenery that survives, clings desperately to the banks of the spring water stream running between the two hills. The province of Gaziantep, where Lohan Cevizli is located, i