Check this out! Interesting Facts About Turkey

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on yesterday's post we mentioned some interesting facts about Istanbul. And I thougt why don't we mention some interesting facts about Turkey. The history of Turkey much richer than Istanbul's History, that's why there are more "the most&the first on this post. Let's enjoy with information everyone can not know.

lydian coins

1- the first coins of the world made of electrum were used by the lydians in Sardis (Sart) in Anatolian's land.

göbeklitepe

3- The oldest temple of the world named Göbeklitepe was located in Anataloia. It's dated bac to twelve thousand yers ago, circa 10.000 BC.

Royal road of
persia

2- The King Road of Persians ran from Sardis, western Anatolia to Susa in 6C BC.

aesop fables

3- Aesop, teller of animal fables was an Anatolian.

king Midas

4- King Midas was an Anatolian.

Aleksander the Great

5- Alexander the Great cut the Gordion knot near Ankara (capital of Turkey). The double knot in Turkish carpets is called " Gördes Düğümü" which is the Turkish expression for the "Gordion Knot".

6- Between 7 and 5C BC, Miletus was the Home of Thales(one of the Seven Sages), of Anaximander Anaximenes (natural philosophers), Hippodamus (philosopher and the earliest town planner) and hecataeus (geographer).

7- Historian Herodotus, physician Galen, mathematician Apollonius, and many more were all Anatolians.

seven wonders of the worlds

8- Two of the Seven Wonders of the World stood in Anatolia: the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The others are the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos of Alexandria.

9- The words of Julius Caesar "veni,vidi,vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)" were said in Amasya, east of Ankara when he went to Anatolia in 47 BC.

seven Churches 

10- The Seven chuches of Asia mentioned in the Revelation of John are located in Anatolia; Ehesus (Efes), Smyrna (Izmir), Laodicea (Denizli), Sardis (Sart), Pergamum (Bergama), Philedephia (Alaşehir) and Thyatira (Akhisar).

tulips

11- Tulips were introduced to Holland from Anatolia by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbec. He was ambassador of Charles V to Süleyman the magnificient.

12-Turkish women were far ahead of many European women when they obtained the right to vote at municipal level in 1930.

And many of them I can not remember at one glance... when the right subject come, we will mention about all these. Keep on following my posts...