Ankara: The capital of Turkey

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

12/08/2008

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Geography

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Summary :

Introduction.
Location and history.
1. Location.
2. Archaeological remains from Stone Age hunters.
3. The Achaemenid Persians.
4. Diocletian's persecution of Christians.
5. The drought in the middle of the ï¬fth century
6. The Sassanian's attack.
7. The period after the battle of Manzikert.
8. The expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
9. The Ankara mohair industry.
10. The early 1800's
11. New immigrants.
12. Ofï¬cial declaration of Ankara as the capital of the new republic of Turkey.
The city today.
Conclusion.

Abstract

Some cities seem to go on forever, able to reappear in very different guises and characteristics from one era to another. ankara is one such changeling. With its roots more than 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, it was a trading city to the Greeks, a regional capital for the Romans, a summer resort and frontier command center for the Byzantines, a profitable textile production center for the Ottomans, and the national capital of Ataturk's new State of turkey. The source of the unique angora wool, today its administrative and educational core provides many jobs for its huge population, and the typical urban problems of smog, illegal settlement, and health difficulties plague its population. Contemporary ankara is a Turkish city, with all the politics of the state and its minority issues played out on its streets and in its halls of power. ankara (ancient, Ancyra; Greek, Angora; Turkish, ankara) is located on the high plateau in the center of Asia Minor/Anatolia. The ancient city grew up at the base of a 500-foot-high steep volcanic outcropping (Atakule) located on the west bank of one branch of the Sakarya River. It is an area of low rainfall, steppe grasses, and cold winters, making ankara's climate harsh: sting heat in the summer and deep snow sometimes into the end of March.