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Turkish Culture Interesting facts

Turkish Culture Interesting facts.

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Turkish Culture Interesting facts

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  1. Turkish CultureInteresting facts

  2. Why Turkey (country) is called Turkey(bird)? Actually, opposite is true. The bird Turkey takes its name from the country named Turkey. Turkey (bird) is native to Americas and when Europeans first encountered them, they incorrectly identified these birds as a type of guineafowl  (Numididae). At that time guineafowl were also known as turkey fowl (or turkey hen and turkey cock) because they were imported to Central Europe through Turkey. The name turkey fowl, shortened to just the name of the country, stuck as the name of the North American bird.

  3. The largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date is in Turkey. The place is named Çatalhöyük and is in southern Anatolia. The settlement existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE! 9,000 years ago, at a time when most of the world's population were wandering hunter-gatherers, Catalhoyuk was one of the world's largest settlements with a population of 10,000.

  4. Suleyman the Magnificent (the famous Ottoman Sultan) was a poet who wrote over 3000 poems, some of them criticizing the greed of mankind. 

  5. Anatolia is the location of the first known beauty contest, judged by Paris, with Aphrodite, Hera and Athena as leading participants. 

  6.  Turkey provides 70% of the world's hazelnuts; the nut in your chocolate bar was most probably grown in Turkey. 

  7.  Turks introduced coffee to Europe.

  8. According to Turkish tradition a stranger at one's doorstep is considered "A Guest from God" and should be accommodated accordingly.

  9. The Famous Trojan Wars took place in western Turkey, around the site where a wooden statue of the Trojan Horse rests today. 

  10. Part of Turkey's southwestern shore was a wedding gift that Mark Anthony gave to Cleopatra.

  11. Turks gave the Dutch their famous tulips.

  12. Temple of Artemis and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, are in Turkey.

  13. Turkey is noted for having one of the three most famous and distinctive traditional cuisines in the world.

  14. Made by: Eliza Bujor Matea Cimpeanu

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