Turkey Facts | GeographyTurkey is the largest and most populous country of the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Turkey borders eight countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Irak and Syria. Often Turkey is named among the countries of the Middle East....
Turkey's relations with China have been evolving in recent years with a changing Middle East in the background. Turkey's bilateral relations with China are important for the Middle East because Turkey is historically, culturally, economically, and socially part of this region, and also because ...
Geography Location Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria ...
theBlack Sea, on the northeast byGeorgiaandArmenia, on the east byAzerbaijanandIran, on the southeast byIraqandSyria, on the southwest and west by the Mediterranean Sea and theAegean Sea, and on the northwest byGreeceandBulgaria. The capital isAnkara, and its largest city and seaport is...
Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Durham, England. Author ofA Geography of the Soviet Union; Turkey;and others. John C. Dewdney, Malcolm Edward Yapp Emeritus Professor of the Modern History of Western Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Author ofThe ...
A Kurd is any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in a contiguous area including southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran. Though the Kurds have long been one of the largest ethnic groups in the region an
After the defeat of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, by the Romans in 189 bce, Ephesus was handed over by the conquerors to the king of Pergamum. Attalus III of Pergamum bequeathed Ephesus with the rest of his possessions to the Roman people (133 bce). Thenceforth, Ephesus remained ...
The bulk of eastern Turkey, however, is drained by the Euphrates (Fırat) and Tigris rivers, which flow south for some 780 miles (1,250 km) and 330 (530 km) miles, respectively, before entering Syria and then Iraq, where they converge to enter the Persian Gulf (see Tigris-Euphrates...
At its height the empire encompassed most of southeastern Europe to the gates of Vienna, including present-day Hungary, the Balkan region, Greece, and parts of Ukraine; portions of the Middle East now occupied by Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt; North Africa as far west as Algeria; and ...