Turkey
Asia Minor: Where East Meets West
The home of Ancient Troy, the setting of Homer’s Iliad and start of the Odyssey, and its fair share of Ancient Wonders of the World, Turkey stands at the crossroads of civilisations and culture, even today. Shaped by a long succession of powerful empires, from the Hittites, Phrygians and Greeks to Byzantium – the last bastion of the Roman Empire, paving the way for the longest lasting empire in history, the Ottoman Empire. Turkey’s lands have been a stage for some of the earliest and most influential societies in human history, with the modern country now offering a huge Mediterranean coastline, vast mountain ranges, lush forests and some of the most incredible geological and historical sights in the world.
Türkiye
Local Names
Turkish (Türkçe)
Official Languages
Ankara
Capital
Turkish Lira
Currency
The Country Archives
VISITING THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a list of remarkable monuments admired by Greek travellers and scholars in antiquity, mainly around the Mediterranean. Can you still visit them? Kinda, yes. Let me explain how, where they are and what happened to them.
Matt Vincelli 