Turkey
Turkey is a large country in western Asia a mostly mountaineous territory bordering the Mediterranean sea and the Black sea. Its territory has been settled since prehistoric times and has seen a succession of several major civilisations. Starting from the 10th century Turkish tribes originating from central Asia came and settled into the territory. In 1453 the Turks conquered Costantinople (now named Istanbul) and completed the conquest of the Turkish peninsula. In the 16th and 17th centuries Turkey was a major regional power which later entered a slow phase of decline. In 1923 the current republic of Turkey was proclaimed by Kemal Atatürk. Turkey is populated by a mix of ethnic groups of which the Turks are the largest one. It's economy enjoyed a phase of high growth between 2000 and 2007, averaging 7% annually. Turkey's economy now sports a well depeloped industrial sector, centered around the western part of the country.
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73 photos of Istanbul in Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman empire with a lot of interesting architecture
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64 photos of Diyarbakir, a historic city in Mesopotamia on the Tigris river
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85 photos of Sanliurfa, a city with a very interesting historic core and a large archaeology museum
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53 photos of Gaziantep, the wealthiest city of the Euphrates-Tigris region
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74 photos of Mardin, a small city in the Mespotamian mountains with impressive Islamic architecture
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21 photos of Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site near Sanliurfa with an 11500 years old temple
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15 photos of Harran, a small city near Sanliurfa with an interesting archaeological site
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35 photos of the ruins of the ancient Byzantine city of Dara with its necropolis and cistern
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13 photos of the Syrian Orthodox monastery of the mother of God in Hah
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23 photos of Midyat, a small city in southeast Turkey with an interesting historic core
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28 photos of the Mor Gabriel monastery, the oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world
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67 miscellaneous photos of southeast Turkey, a region with many prehistoric sites
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23 photos of Didim and the Didyma site with the temple of Apollo
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19 photos of the ruins of Miletos, an ancient Greek city with a harbour
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27 photos of Priene, an ancient Greek city built on the slopes of a mountain, overlooking the sea
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25 photos of ruins of Tlos, one of the oldest and largest settlements of Lycia in western Turkey
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45 photos of Xanthos, an archaeological site with the ruins of an 8th century BC Lycian city in western Turkey
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46 photos of Ephesus, the most significant Greco-Roman site in western Turkey
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44 photos of Antalya, a major tourist centre on the coast of southern Turkey
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30 photos of Aphrodisias, an ancient Hellenistic-Roman site in the Anatolian plateau in western Turkey
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28 photos of Pamukkale-Hierapolis, a combined natural and archaeological site in western Turkey
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14 miscellaneous photos of Turkey
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