Turkey Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
country straddling Southeast Europe and West Asia
About Turkey
There is evidence that the bed of the Black Sea was once an inhabited plain before it was flooded in prehistoric times by rising sea levels. Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı), at5,165m (16,946ft), is Turkey's highest point and the legendary landing place of Noah's Ark on the far eastern edge of the country. The area that is now Turkey has been part of many of the world's greatest empires throughout history. The city ofTroy, famously destroyed by theGreeksin Homer'sIlliad, has always been associated with the entrance to the Dardanelles strait in northwestern Anatolia. Subsequently, the area was to become part of the Roman Empire, and subsequently, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire after the Roman Empire split into two, with the city of Constantinople (nowIstanbul) as the regional capital, as well
Turkey Travel Guide Sections
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