WHAT TURKEY LOOKS LIKE
Turkey is a real bridge between East and West, both geographically and culturally.
Turkey is situated between 36° and 42° north latitude, and between 26° and 55° east longitude. It is bounded, on the north, by the Black Sea; on the northeast, by the Russian Caucasus; on the east, by Iran; on the south, by Iraq Syria and the Mediterranean Sea; on the west, by the Aegean Sea and Greece; and on the northwest, by Bulgaria. Land frontiers total 1,635 miles, as follows : with Russia, 366.6; with Iran. 292; with Iraq, 2349; with Syria, 490.37; with Greece, 126.7; and with Bul¬garia, 124. There are 4.249 miles of coastline, deeply indented and fringed with islands along the Aegean Sea and private İstanbul tour.
The area of Turkey is 296.503 square miles, 96, 88 % of which lies in Asia and the remaining 3.12 % in Europe. Turkey in Europe is divided from Turkey – in Asia by the Dardannelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus the historic waterway which links the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea. The European portion of Turkey Tours is about the size of New Hampshire, while the Asiatic portion is somewhat larger than the combined areas of Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
After the istanbul tours you will see few regions in the world have had in their history so long a period of successive civilizations. This period in Turkey dates back to the fourth millenium before the Christian era. People of the paleolithic period, and those of the Age of Caverns, which we know archaeologically, but not historically, lived on these highlands and along the coast. Then came the Hittites, Lydians, Phrygians, Carians, Dorians, Aeolians, Ionians, Cimmerians, Bithynians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks, and finally the Ottoman Turks, who established themselves after the beginning of the XIV Century.
As a consequence of this historic richness. Turkey is crowded with ancient cities or their remains, monuments, works of arts, and relics, which make this country a most interesting one for the world tourist. Another characteristic of Turkey it that 38 geograpric names from the New Testament lie within the present boundaries of the Turkish Republic. To those 38 places, there are a total of 162 references. It was in Antakya (ancient Antioch on Orontes) that the name of Christian was first applied to the followers of the New Way. Thus, the name Christian is itself of Anatolian origin.
