Turkey Map

                        Turkey is a country located in the Eastern Thrace is located in the Eurasian continent, West Asia and Southeast Europe.

                   Turkey has been settled since ancient times Eurasian continent between Europe and Asia, is located in the region of Anatolia. Early Anatolian people whose language may be the origin of Indo-European languages, the Bible Hittites, Hurrians, including the later Phrygians and Thracians. Migration of the Greek city of Byzantium settlement Anatolia, BC It began in 1200.
Ca. Invaded by the Persians in the year 550, it has become a part of the Achaemenid Empire for several centuries. BC Alexander the Great In 336 years, when the Macedonian ruler, he led his troops quickly into Anatolia from the hands of the Persians control. After his death, eventually it became part of the Roman Republic and later moved to the capital of the Byzantine Roman Empire by Constantine. City name of the New Rome, but later called to Istanbul and then was known as the leader today in Istanbul. The Roman Empire was divided when the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

                   The Ottoman Empire spread throughout Africa and the Red Sea, conquered Constantinople in 1453 and continued to expand. Continued expansion in the 1700s until the 1700s, the Ottoman Empire losing land and power over the next century, began a slow decline. Empire of the Republic of Turkey in World War I. The conflict was resolved in the bustling capital city of Ankara in 1923, with the Treaty of Lausanne was founded in 1920. They tried to create a secular country with rights for women, it was its first president, Mustafa Kemal. ottoman instead took the name of the republic of turk