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  2. Place name changes in Turkey - Wikipedia

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    Place name changes in Turkey have been undertaken, periodically, in bulk from 1913 to the present by successive Turkish governments. Thousands of names within the Turkish Republic or its predecessor the Ottoman Empire have been changed from their popular or historic alternatives in favour of recognizably Turkish names, as part of Turkification ...

  3. Name of Turkey - Wikipedia

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    Turkey adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, known in English as the Republic of Turkey or more commonly known as Turkey, upon the declaration of the republic on 29 October 1923. In 2021, however, via the UN, Turkey changed its spelling to Türkiye. At a press briefing on 5 January 2023, a US State Department spokesperson announced that:

  4. Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Place name changes in ...

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    1 Place name changes in Turkey. Toggle Place name changes in Turkey subsection. 1.1 Tables and maps. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: ...

  5. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes a place reverts to its former name (see, for example, de-Stalinization). [citation needed] One of the most common reasons for a country changing its name is newly acquired independence. When borders are changed, sometimes due to a country splitting or two countries joining, the names of the relevant areas can change.

  6. Turkey - Wikipedia

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    Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.

  7. PETA Asks Turkey, Texas, to Change Name to 'Tofurkey' - AOL

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    As a gesture of goodwill toward the Thanksgiving bird, the animal activist group asked the small town of under 500 to change its name to PETA Asks Turkey, Texas, to Change Name to 'Tofurkey' Skip ...

  8. The Real Reason Why Turkey Makes You So Sleepy - AOL

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    Turkey at Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t inherently make you sleepy. Other factors like alcohol, carb-heavy side dishes, and large portion sizes are more likely the culprit behind feeling tired ...

  9. So, why is Turkey in NATO, anyway? A look at the country's ...

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    Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for "prestige, gravitas and panache," said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U.S ...