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Tourkia (other)
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''Tourkia'' () may refer to: * Turkey, a country in southeastern Europe and western Asia **The name of Turkey in modern Greek **The name of the Ottoman Empire in medieval and early modern Greek * Tourkia (Khazaria) ("eastern ''Tourkia''"), designation for the early medieval Khazar state in Byzantine sources * Tourkia (Hungary) ("western ''Tourkia''"), designation for the medieval Hungarian state in Byzantine sources See also * Name of Turkey * Turkey (other) Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), 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. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Name Of Turkey
The name for the country Turkey is derived (via Old French ') from the Medieval Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ') from the Medieval Latin ', from Medieval Greek , itself being (borrowed into Latin as ). It is first recorded in Middle English (as ''Turkye, Torke'', later ''Turkie, Turky''), attested in Chaucer, 1369. The Ottoman Empire was commonly referred to as ''Turkey'' or the ''Turkish Empire'' among its contemporaries. The word ultimately originates from the autonym ''Türk'', first recorded in the Bugut inscription (as in its plural form ''türküt'') and the Hüis Tolgoi Inscription (as ''türǖg'') of the 6th century, and later, in the Orkhon inscriptions and the Tariat inscriptions (as both ''türük'' and ''türk'') (𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜) of the 8th century. Toponymy The English name of Turkey (from Medieval Latin ''Turchia''/''Turquia'') means "land of the Turks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourkia (Khazaria)
The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. They created what, for its duration, was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Astride a major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading empires of the early medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East, and Kievan Rus'. For some three centuries (–965), the Khazars dominated the vast area extending from the Volga-Don steppes to the eastern Crimea and the northern Caucasus. Khazaria long served as a buffer state between the Byzantine Empire, the nomads of the northern steppes, and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourkia (Hungary)
Hungary in its modern (post-1946) borders roughly corresponds to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Carpathian basin, Carpathian Basin) in Central Europe. During the Iron Age Europe, Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of Scythians, Scythian tribes (such as Agathyrsi, Cimmerians), the Celts, Celtic tribes (such as the Scordisci, Boii and Veneti (Gaul), Veneti), Illyrians, Dalmatian tribes (such as the Dalmatae, Histri and Liburnians, Liburni) and the Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes (such as the Lugii, Marcomanni). In 44 BC, the Sarmatians, Iazyges moved into the Great Hungarian Plain. In 8 AD, the western part of the territory (the so-called Transdanubia) of modern Hungary formed part of Pannonia, a province of the Roman Empire. Roman control collapsed with the Hunnic invasions of 370–410, the Huns created a significant empire based in present-day Hungary. In 453 they reached the height of their expansion under Attila the Hun. After the death o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Name Of Turkey
The name for the country Turkey is derived (via Old French ') from the Medieval Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ') from the Medieval Latin ', from Medieval Greek , itself being (borrowed into Latin as ). It is first recorded in Middle English (as ''Turkye, Torke'', later ''Turkie, Turky''), attested in Chaucer, 1369. The Ottoman Empire was commonly referred to as ''Turkey'' or the ''Turkish Empire'' among its contemporaries. The word ultimately originates from the autonym ''Türk'', first recorded in the Bugut inscription (as in its plural form ''türküt'') and the Hüis Tolgoi Inscription (as ''türǖg'') of the 6th century, and later, in the Orkhon inscriptions and the Tariat inscriptions (as both ''türük'' and ''türk'') (𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜) of the 8th century. Toponymy The English name of Turkey (from Medieval Latin ''Turchia''/''Turquia'') means "land of the Turks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
