All About Turkey

We can divide the history of Turkey’s land into 4 part:

1. Prehistoric Times

2. The Byzantium

3. The Ottomans

4. Republic of Turkiye

 

Gallipoli War 

History Of Turkey...

 

Prehistoric Times

7500 BC                     First stone age settlements in Çatalhöyük (near to Ankara)

 

1900 - 1300 BC         Hittite Empire with Hattusas as capital, contemporary with                                  ancient Egpty and Babylon.

 

1250 BC                    The Trojan war and the fall of Troy.

 

334 BC                       Alexander the Great drives out the Persians.

 

130 BC                       The Romans incorparate Anatolia as the province of Asia,                                    controlled from Epeshus

 

 

The Byzantium

 

313                            Roman Empire adopts Chiristianty.

 

330                            Constantine lays out the boundaries of  his new capital,                                      Constantinople (Istanbul ).

 

638 - 7 18                  Muslim Arabs besiege Constantinople

 

1071— 1243               Rise and rule of the Selcuk Turks in Anatolia, Konya is                                        their capital.

 

1096 – 1204               The beginning of the end for the Byzantium.

 

 

The Ottomans

 

1288                          The Ottoman Empire settles in Bursa.

1364                          Murat I wins Sırp Sındığı war and 1st Crusade.
1389                          Cannon ball is first used in the First Kosovo War by the

                                 Turks.
1396                          3rd Crusaders defeate