Anatolia

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geographical region historical region peninsula

Anatolia is a large peninsula in Western Asia that forms most of modern-day Turkey and has long served as a strategic crossroads between Europe and the Middle East.

Aliases (12)

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region → historical region → peninsula →
alsoKnownAs	Anadolu → Asia Minor →
borders	Aegean Sea → Black Sea → Mediterranean Sea →
capitalCityOnItsEdge	Ankara →
conqueredBy	Achaemenid Empire → Alexander the Great → Ottoman Turks → Roman Republic → Seljuk Turks →
containsAncientCity	Cappadocia → Ephesus → Iconium → Pergamon → Sardis → Troy →
country	Turkey →
easternBoundary	Armenian Highlands → Zagros Mountains →
formsMostOf	territory of modern Turkey →
hasSubregion	Aegean Region → Black Sea Region → Central Anatolia → Eastern Anatolia → Mediterranean Region of Turkey → Southeastern Anatolia →
historicallyInhabitedBy	Armenians → Greeks → Hittites → Kurds → Luwians → Lydians → Phrygians → Turks →
largestCityOnItsEdge	Istanbul →
locatedIn	Asia → Western Asia →
modernLanguageMajority	Turkish →
northernBoundary	Pontic Mountains →
partOf	Republic of Turkey →
religiousSignificance	early center of Christianity →
separatedFrom	Balkans →
separatedFromBy	Bosporus → Dardanelles → Sea of Marmara →
southernBoundary	Taurus Mountains →
strategicRole	bridge between Europe and Asia → crossroads between Europe and the Middle East →
timeZone	Turkey Time →
traversedBy	Silk Road routes →
wasCenterOf	Byzantine Empire → Hittite Empire → Lydian Kingdom → Phrygian Kingdom →
wasCoreRegionOf	Ottoman Empire →

Referenced by (148)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ancyra → Ankara Province → Asian side of Istanbul → Cappadocia ("Anatolian plateau") → Central Anatolia Region → Clazomenae → Comana Pontica → Eastern Turkey → Ephesus → Galatia → Hittite Empire → Iconium → Karatay Medrese → Kingdom of Pontus → Konya → Konya Archaeological Museum → Kültepe → Late Byzantine period → Luwian polities → Lydian Kingdom → Nicaea → Phrygia → Roman–Persian Wars → Selinus in Cilicia → Selçuk University → Smyrna → Yeşil Cami →	locatedIn
Ahmet Yesevi → Boğazköy (Hattusa) → Byzantine Empire → Caesarea in Cappadocia → Hieroglyphic Luwian → Hittite (Nesite) → Kurmanji → Lydian ("western Anatolia") → Old Anatolian Turkish → Smyrna ("western Anatolia") → Surname Law of 1934 → Tropical Butterfly Garden → Turkish nationalism →	region
Aegean Region → Bithynia → Cappadocia → Caria → Lycia → Mediterranean Region of Turkey → Phrygia ("Ancient Anatolia") → Pontus → İznik →	partOf
Armenian Genocide → Byzantine–Ottoman wars → First Crusade → Second Crusade → founding of the Republic of Turkey →	location
Aramaic → Celtic languages → Judezmo → Orhan Çelebi →	historicalRegion
Cuneiform Luwian → Hurrian → Luwic languages ("western Anatolia") → Palaic →	spokenIn
Hellenistic kingdoms → Islamic Caliphates → Mongol conquests → Seleucid Empire →	territoryIncludes
Crusades → Ottoman Sunni Islamic institutions → Ottoman architecture →	geographicScope
Late Bronze Age → Neo-Assyrian expansion → People's Crusade →	hasLocation
Ibn Arabi → Mevleviyya → Yunus Emre →	regionOfActivity
Artaxerxes I of Persia → Bayezid I → Cyrus the Great →	regionRuled
Asia → Mevleviyya →	associatedWith
Orhan → Osman I →	birthPlace
Aegean Sea → Aegean islands ("Anatolian (Turkish) mainland") →	borderedBy
Kipchak languages → Southwestern Turkic →	geographicDistribution
Gunpowder Empires → Islamic world →	hasRegion
Greater Iran ("Anatolia (parts)") → Turkic world →	includesRegion
Euphrates → Silk Road routes →	passesThrough
Kingdom of Cappadocia ("Hellenistic Anatolia") → Milyan →	regionType
Greater Zab → Tigris–Euphrates river system ("Anatolian highlands") →	sourceRegion
Aegean Bronze Age → Arwad →	tradedWith
Ottoman lira → Seljuk architecture →	usedInRegion
Treaty of Sèvres →	affectedTerritory
Anatolia ("Anadolu") →	alsoKnownAs
pir →	appearsInRegion
Turkic languages →	areSpokenIn
Russo-Turkish Wars →	conflictRegion
Seljuk Sultanate of Rum →	country
Department of Islamic Art →	coversGeographicRegion
Royal Road →	crosses
Turks →	culturalRegion
Islamic art →	developedInRegion
Selim I →	expandedInto
Murad I →	expandedTerritoryIn
Department of Near Eastern Antiquities →	focusesOn
Ancient Near East collection →	focusesOnRegion
Ottoman Army →	garrisonedIn
Ottoman culture →	geographicalExtent
Byzantine architecture →	geographicRegion
Ottoman sultan →	governed
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire →	governedTerritory
Epic of Köroğlu →	hasCulturalRegion
Indo-Iranian peoples →	hasHistoricalRegion
Late Antiquity →	hasMajorRegion
Ancient Mediterranean world →	hasPart
Syrian Wars →	historicalRegionInvolved
Lydian Kingdom ("Anatolian cultures") →	influencedBy
Bosporus →	isBoundaryBetween
Milyan ("Anatolian") →	languageBranch
Aegean Sea ("Anatolian Peninsula") →	locatedBetween
Hellenistic period →	mainRegion
Byzantine–Ottoman wars ("western Anatolia") →	mainTheater
Oghuz →	migratedTo
Ovis orientalis →	nativeTo
Bronze Age →	occursIn
Ottoman Turkish →	primaryRegion
Hülegü Khan ("Anatolia (parts)") →	regionOfInfluence
Indo-Europeans →	regionOfOriginHypothesis
America America →	setIn
Book of Dede Korkut →	setting
Anabasis →	settingPlace
Antiochus III the Great →	territorialExpansion
Komnenos dynasty →	territorialExtent
Sargon II →	territoryExpandedTo
Achaemenid Empire →	territoryExtent
Ashur →	tradeConnections
Mycenaean civilization →	tradesWith
Ibn Battuta →	traveledTo
Old Anatolian Turkish →	usedIn
Pontus ("Anatolian culture") →	wasInfluencedBy