For thousands of years the Anatolian peninsula has been the homeland of major civilisations of the worlds
Turkey History
6500 B.C. Çatal Höyük, the oldest Neolithic town
3500 B.C. First settlement at Troy
2300 B.C. The world biggest Bronze civilisation
1800 B.C. Hitites
1200 B.C. Trojan War
1000 B.C. Phrygians and Urartians
600 B.C. Persians
334 B.C. Alexandre the Great
385 Byzantine period
1071 Defeat of the Byzantines by Turcs-Seljouks
1453 Conquest of Constantinople
1520-1566 Reign of Soliman the Magnificient
1914-1918 First World War
1920-1922 Turkish War of Independence
1923 Proclamation of the Turkish Republic |
