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Turkey
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Türkiye
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Türkiye - Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (T.C.)
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, Kuzey Yarımkürede, Avrupa ve Asya kıtaları arasında, kuşbakışı görünümü kabaca doğu-batı doğrultusunda bir dikdörtgeni andıran Anadolu platosu üzerinde kurulmuştur. Akdeniz, Karadeniz, bu iki denizi Boğazlar vasıtasıyla birbirine bağlayan Marmara Denizi ve Ege Denizi ile çevrilidir. Eski çağın başlıca uygarlık alanları olan Akdeniz dünyası ile Ortadoğu ve Uzakdoğu göç ve ticaret yollarının kesişim noktasında bulunan Türkiye coğrafyası pek çok medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmıştır.
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Turkey - Republic of Turkey
The Republic of Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwestern Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: ► Bulgaria to the northwest, ► Greece to the west, ► Georgia with to the northeast, ► Armenia, ► Iran and the ► Nakhichevan exclave of ► Azerbaijan to the east, and ► Iraq and ► Syria to the southeast. In addition, it borders the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south, where ► Cyprus lies. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara that is used by geographers to mark the border between Europe and Asia, thus making the country transcontinental.
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Turkey
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Republic of Turkey
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Independent country since 1923, as Ottoman Empire since 1299
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| Location
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Asia and Europe
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| Capital
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Ankara
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| Population
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83,154,997 inhabitants
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| Area
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783,562 square kilometres (302,535 sq mi)
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Turkish (official)
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| Major religions
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Islam
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| More information
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Turkey, Geography of Turkey, History of Turkey and Politics of Turkey
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Turkey - Turkey (Category).
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General maps
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Map of Turkey
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Topography
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Maps of divisions
This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.
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Main cities
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History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Turkey, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Turkey.
Before the Roman Empire
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The Hittite Empire (red) at the height of its power in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green)
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The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire
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ancient Thrace, map made in 1585
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Map of the Empire of Alexander
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Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
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Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
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Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
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Roman and Byzantine Empires
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
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Roman conquest of Minor Asia
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The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals) AD 14 (death of Augustus) |
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Roman dependencies of Corduene, Sophene, Commagene and Osrhoene (as of 31 BC)
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Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
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The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
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Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500
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Division of the Roman Empire in 406
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
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The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Leo III, c. 717
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The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Basil I, c. 867
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The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025
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The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
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Map of the Byzantine Empire under Manuel Komnenos, c.1170.
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The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, 1199-1375
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Map to show the partition of the empire following the Fourth Crusade, c.1204.
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The Byzantine Empire in 1265 (William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1911).
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Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
By 1294 the empire had split into:
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Ottoman Empire
Turkey after the Ottoman Empire
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Fronts of the Turkish War of Independence
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The Kemalist influence and its claims
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Map of the Republic of Turkey, Anavatan ("Motherland"), in 1927
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Map of Turkey after the 1939 annexation of Hatay
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Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
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Ottoman Empire in Europe, made by T. Jefferys, 1785
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15th Century map of the region now known as Turkey
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How the Treaty of Sèvres planed to break up Turkey
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Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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