Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patara, birthplace of St Nicholas, is a wide-open sprawl of ruins framed by farmland and dunes in Türkiye. Georg Knoll/laif, Redux ...
When you think of St. Nicholas, you probably think of a bearded man in a red coat in a sleigh delivering presents on Christmas Eve with his reindeer. St. Nicholas was indeed a real person in history, ...
Before the iconic red suit and the sleigh, the real St. Nicholas lived and died in ancient Lycia, modern-day Antalya Province, Türkiye. St. Nick didn't grow up with reindeer. He grew up walking among ...