Turkey - The Realm of Sun and Sea

Our website offers you a marvelous relaxation in Turkey. And you can decide to have Turkey travel tips. Variety and attractiveness of Turkey is her face that she performs to both Europe and Asia because this country is like a frontier on the boundary of these continents. Anatolia is the basic part of this wonderful country and it is located in Asia Minor. And Europe has received only three percent of Turkey as a small tribute to Asia. Hills are the basic feature of this country. There is not a great number of lowlands and they are mostly situated on the seashores and in the dales of the rivers. Three seas are located around Turkey: Aegean, Black and Mediterranean.

In the mountain parts of eastern Anatolia average temperature is 30 degrees Celsius during the winter. And on the coastal lowlands of Mediterranean Sea is hot subtropical climate. There are sixty six million of people live in Turkey and the population is steadily growing now. Ankara is Turkey’s metropolis. It is in the centre of Turkey where the mountains penetrate Heaven. But the biggest and the most well-known city is Istanbul. It lies on Bosporus strait in Europe and Asia. Nowadays Istanbul changed into a huge mega polis with 15 million of citizens. The main portion of Turkey’s commercial potential is situated here.

The state language is the Turkish language. Turkish concerns to the family of Turkic languages that is spread on a huge territory of Asia. A great power of this language is in his origin and a possibility of transformation. Some years ago there was no Turkish ABC and Turks applied the Arabian one, but it wasn’t really convenient. In the beginning of the twentieth century scholars were determined to use Roman alphabet. Many words are precisely performed in writing with the help of this ABC accurately as they are pronounced. But there were some other changes in the structure of speech. Great changes were performed in the vocabulary. The speech was cleaned from the Arabian and Persian terms. They were changed on the other notions of many Turkic peoples. There were made Turkish equivalents for the words that didn’t exist in the language.

Turks are the principal nationality of the state. But many different peoples and nationalities inhabit Turkey. The appearance of Turk really changes from one part of the country to another. You can see there fair haired men and brunets and all of them are Turks. Islam is the main religion for 99 percent of people. Turkish lira nowadays is the official currency in this country. National holiday is the day of the republic declaration.

But you can also choose to go to Amasya. This wonderful place is really pleasant for the eye of the tourists. Excellent service and friendly servants will make you keep this place in mind to the end of your life.

The best way between the two parts of the world goes through Dardanelles. Through this path Greeks came to war with Persians and vice versa. Troy was founded here in the XII century before Christ. Trojans didn’t want to let go Greeks through this path and it became the cause for the Trojan War. And Homer wrote his story about Helena and Paris only after five or six ages. Troy was found only in the XIX century by the archeologist H. Schliemann who had a time and means to satisfy his curiosity and to dispel the problems of many researchers.

But everything is in your hands look at the map and choose where to go. It may be Denizli, Kutahya, Mersin or a lot of other places of this beautiful country.