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5 unusual facts about Anatolian


Edirne event

“Very quickly, by 1703, these lifetime tax farms had spread and came into wide use in the Balkan, Anatolian, and Arab provinces alike” (Ottoman Empire 1700-1922 48).

Itamar Singer

He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the study of this ancient Anatolian culture in Israel and elucidating the tensions which brought about its demise.

Lycians

The Lycians were an Anatolian people living in Lycia.

Selim III

Officers and military experts sent by the different European powers trained in Istanbul and in a number of Anatolian provincial centers.

Yazdânism

One of the common characteristic of these three distinct group of people is that they frequently call themselves as "Kurdish Alawites" and distance themselves from Twelver-Shia-Muslim-Tariqat of the Anatolian Turkish-Qizilbash-Alevi-Bektashis in such a way that the prophecy of Muhammad as it was revealed by the verses of the Quran does not constitute a part of their fundamental religious faith.


Akhisar

In the 14th century, Turks under the Anatolian Beylik of Saruhan regained all Western Anatolian lands and Akhisar went under Turkish rule in 1307.

Anatolian Bulgarians

After the Liberation of Bulgaria, many Anatolian Bulgarians returned to their native land, with some settling in Yagnilo and Dobroplodno, Varna Province, Svirachi, Oreshino, Byalopolyane, Ivaylovgrad in Haskovo Province exchanging their property with that of Turks from Bulgaria.

Anatolian hieroglyphs

Anatolian hieroglyphs first came to Western attention in the nineteenth century, when European explorers such as Johann Ludwig Burckhardt and Richard Francis Burton described pictographic inscriptions on walls in the city of Hama, Syria.

Bulgurca

Haris Alexiou, a Greek singer, was a daughter of an Anatolian Greek family who migrated in 1924 from Bulgurca.

Coat of arms of Argentina

The Phrygian cap was typically worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, in the Anatolian peninsula, and is commonly mistaken for being a Pileus.

İhsan Ketin

In 1953 he published his well-known comparison of the San Andreas and North Anatolian faults.

İlknur Melis Durası

After graduating as 1st in her class rank from Burak Bora Anatolian High School, she continued her education at Sabancı University in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Program.

Özkan Uğur

In 1976, he left Anatolian rock music genre and joined the quintet "İpucu" led by the MFÖ trio.

Pervâne

According to Ibn Shaddad, when Baybars came to Syria in 1275, Pervâne played a pivotal role in dissuading him from his plans for invading the Anatolian heartland and directed him rather towards raids in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, persuading him to leave the territories of his sultanate to the following year.

Proto-Anatolian language

However, the usage of Hittite cuneiform writing system limits the enterprise of understanding and reconstructing Anatolian phonology, partly due to the deficiency of the adopted Akkadian cuneiform syllabary to represent Hittite sounds, and partly due to the Hittite scribal practices.

Ramazan Kubat

His efforts for combining the traditions with international and novel elements were consecrated in a huge concert in 2002, orchestrated by René Giessen, titled "Anadolu Güneşi" (Anatolian Sun) and held in Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center.

Seyhan Rotary Anadolu Lisesi

Seyhan Rotary Anatolian High School was established in August 29th 1996 at Yüreğir, Adana by Seyhan Rotary Club.

SunExpress

With this launch, SunExpress became the first airline company to connect İzmir with Anatolian cities with direct flights in Turkey.

Telmessos

Birds Without Wings 2004 novel by Louis de Bernières set in the early 1900s in a fictional Anatolian village called Eskibahçe where Telmessos is the nearest town.

Turkish carpet

Wool on wool (wool pile on wool warp and weft): This is the most traditional and often the most "authentic" (if such a word can be used) type of Anatolian rug.

Yoros Castle

(Anadolu and Rumeli were Ottoman terms for the Anatolian and European parts of the empire).

Zababa

Most likely, this spelling represents the native Anatolian Hattian god Wurunkatte.


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