Turkey

There are 2131 items in Turkey:

Ada

Ada: sister and wife of Idrieus, after his death satrap of Caria between 344 and 340, member of the Hecatomnid dynasty.Ada was a daughter of Hecatomnus, the founder of the Hecatomnid dynasty of satraps of Caria. Not only her father,…

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Adana

Adana: town in Cilicia. Adana, bust of Hadrian Originally, Adana used to be less important a city than nearby Tarsus, which had…

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Ağri Daği (the so-called Ararat)

Ağrı Dağı: volcano in eastern Turkey that is commonly but incorrectly known as Ararat. The Turkish name means "mountain of pain" and is a rendering of Çiyaye Agiri, which in Kurdish means "the fiery mountain". In Armenian, it is called Masis. …

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