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"Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 1
"..There was one large trunked reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled scarlet, ovate
leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes,; such as sullage, a kind of soup;
long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree
that the city of Turia took its name; ..."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 217
"The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls, of course, was a custom of distant Turia, famed
for its wealth and its nine great gates. It lay on the southern plains of Gor, far below the equator, the hub of an intricate pattern of trade
routes."
Book 7, Captive of Gor,
"Turia is a city of the far south, below the equator. It lies in the lands of the Wagon Peoples. There
is little water closer to it than a thousand pasangs."
Book 8, Hunters of Gor,
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