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English: Map of Turkey in Europe, Greece and the Balkans, extract of Anthony Finley, A New General Altas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries, Philadelphia, 1827.
The European portion of Turkey consists mainly of rolling plateau country well suited to agriculture. Densely populated, this area includes the cities of Istanbul and Edirne . The Bosphorus , which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about twenty-five kilometers long and averages 1.5 kilometers in width but narrows in places to less ...
This map is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Map of Turkey. The original can be viewed here: Europe-Georgia.svg: . Modifications made by Chipmunkdavis.
Map of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti. This is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving map that predates the Turkish conquest of 1453. The Bosporus is visible along the right-hand side of the map, wrapping vertically around the historic city.
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Turkey or Türkiye, sovereign Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia and Thrace at the southeastern tip of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. [1] Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal ...
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.
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions (Turkish: bölge), which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. [1] The regions are subdivided into 31 sections (Turkish: bölüm), which are further divided into numerous areas (Turkish: yöre), as defined by microclimates and bounded by local geographic formations.