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Turkey Timeline

Turkey Timeline. By: Ross Rogers. The Trojan War fought between the armies of Troy and Achaea (Greece) for control of trade passing through the Dardanelles strait. 1250 BC. Cyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Anatolia. 547 BC.

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Turkey Timeline

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  1. Turkey Timeline By: Ross Rogers

  2. The Trojan War fought between the armies of Troy and Achaea (Greece) for control of trade passing through the Dardanelles strait. 1250 BC

  3. Cyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Anatolia. 547 BC

  4. Alexander the Great of Macedon marches through Anatolia on his way to India. 334 BC

  5. Celts (or Gauls) invade and establish the kingdom of Galatia near Ankara. 279 BC

  6. Rise of the Kingdom of Pergamum (Bergama) as an Anatolian power. 250 BC

  7. Anatolia becomes the Roman Province of Asia ('Asia Minor'), with its capital at Ephesus. 129 BC

  8. ST Paul travels to Christian and Jewish communities in Anatolia. 47-57 AD

  9. Turkish Empire of the Great Seljuks in Iran. 1037-1109

  10. Crusader armies cross Anatolia through the lands of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum, with frequent battles. 1000s-1200s

  11. Conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) by Sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror. 1453

  12. Reign of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the great age of the Ottoman Empire. The sultan rules most of North Africa, most of Eastern Europe and all of the Middle East. His navies patrol the Mediterranean and Red seas and the Indian Ocean. 1520-1566

  13. Treaty of Karlowitz, the first time in over 400 years that the Ottomans were decisively defeated and forced to sign a peace treaty as the clear losers. The mighty empire was clearly in decline. 1699

  14. Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, a ruthless despot who was the last of the powerful sultans. The European empires ask themselves the 'Eastern Question': which European nations will grab Ottoman territory when the sultan's empire collapses? 1876-1909

  15. The Ottoman Empire enters World War I in alliance with Germany. Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops invade invade Gallipoli which is successfully defended by Ottoman forces led by Kemal. Eventual defeat of the Ottomans, loss of most of the empire's territory, and occupation of parts of Anatolia by victorious foreign troops. 1914-1918

  16. Atatürk'sreforms, equal rights for women, secular government, prohibition of the fez and the veil, substitution of the Latin alphabet for the Arabic, Turkification of city names, everyone adopts a surname. 1923-1938

  17. Death of Ataturk, continuation of one part rule. 1938

  18. Turkey maintains a precarious neutrality during World War II. 1939-1945

  19. Institution of multi-party democracy. 1946-1950

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