History of Turkey
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The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the area now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia and Eastern Thrace. These two previously politic
Bronze Age Anatolia
Originally a church, later a mosque, and now a Grand mosque, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was built by the Byzantines in the 6th century.
Court of Seljuk ruler Tughril III, circa 1200 CE.
Mehmed II enters Constantinople by Fausto Zonaro
The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmed VI by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1922 by the new Republican Parliament in 1923. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the
History of Turkey
…Seljuq dynasty, the history of Turkey spans the medieval history of the Seljuk Empire, the medieval to modern history of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Republic of Turkey since the 1920s. Present-day Turkey has been inhabited by modern humans since the late Paleolithic period and contains some of the world's oldest…
President Atatürk and his colleagues leaving the building of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (today the Museum of the Republic) after a meeting
Atatürk listens to a citizen in Tokat (1930).
Erkilet and Erden on the Eastern Front on 31 October 1941
Erkilet, Erden, and Hitler in October 1941