Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the second largest city after Istanbul. The population of the city of Ankara suburbs nearly four and a half million souls according to the statistics of 2010. It thus is the forty-fifth place globally in terms of population density. Ankara is located on a plateau of Anatolia, central Turkey, as an average height above sea level 938 meters. Because of the importance of commercial and industrial, and its geographical location was taken by successive Turkish governments have the political capital and the seat of the ministries and government offices and foreign missions. Dating back to the pre 10,000 a year when it was inhabited by primitive man first, and then ruled Alhatheon, and the Hittites, and Alfrejeon, and Allidion then Alokhmignon Persians, and then came the Macedonians and the Chaldeans, and finally seized by the Romans, and after the division of the empire Romania remained under Byzantine rule until the opening of the Seljuks and then fell in the hands of the Mongols to be dominated by the Ottomans in the fourteenth century. Since 1923 declared Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Ankara, capital of the Turkish Republic ...

 



  Return basis naming the city of Ankara to the Greek language when he called Alfrejeon behalf Onkura (Anküra), and mean anchor the ship, and says some of the ancient myths that Midas king of Phrygia found for the first time anchor in Ankara, and states that Alexander the Great passed Onkura in traveling towards the east in 333 (BC), as there is today in the Museum of Anatolian ancient coins dating back to the second century AD, the instrument has a picture of the ship anchor. And as defined by Ankara as well as the name Latin and especially in Western sources on behalf of Onkira or Onkira (Ankyra or Ancyra), respectively, also known in the Abbasid era behalf Amuriyah proportion to battle Amuriyah that erupted between the Abbasid Caliph Billah and Prince Byzantine Theophile, and when dominated by the Seljuk Turks on the city dubbed Ankara ...