Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
History of Turkey, and Early Anatolia. The Origin Turkish, World War, Crisis in Democracy, Society, The Economy, Government. Sociologists and other scholars, both Turkish and foreign, have noted that a majority of the population estimated at the end of 1994 at 61.2 million accepts as true Turks only those individuals
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
An archaeologist who has spent much of his life in the Near East attempts to share his profound interest in an antique land, its inhabitants, and the surviving monuments that link the present to the past. Illustrations.
Language: en
Pages: 39
Pages: 39
ANCIENT ANATOLIA Anatolia is the Asiatic portion of contemporary Turkey, extending from the Bosporus and Aegean coast eastward to the borders of the Soviet Union, Iran, and Iraq. The Greeks and Romans called western Anatolia "Asia." Later the name "Asia Minor," or "Little Asia," was used to distinguish Anatolia from
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Analyzes developments in the rise of the Ottoman Empire, from 1280 to 1808, and its modernization and demise in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
The author intended this book to be a concise yet comprehensive history of the Ottoman Empire. He begins with the decline of the Byzantine Empire. He credits the Russo-Turkish War to the increased aggression of the Russians in the preceding century. The author especially focuses on international relations and Turkey's