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Turkey or the official name of the Republic of Turkey, a large part of the territory of Anatolia, Thrace which spread to a small portion of a country extension of the Balkans. Bulgaria is located in the northwest, Greece in the west, Georgia in the northeast, Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan in the east and Nakhchivan in the southeast, Iraq and Syria in the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north. The Sea of ​​Marmara separates Anatolia from Thrace, namely Asia from Europe, along with the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. Turkey, due to take place at the crossroads of Europe and Asia has an important geo-strategic power. [6]

The first settlement on the territory of Turkey Aioli, Doric and Ionian Greeks, Thracians and was launched in Paleolithic by various nations such as Persia. [7] [8] [9] [10] Then III. With the reign of Alexandros, the Hellenistic period came, followed by the Roman and Byzantine periods, respectively. [9] [11] As a result of the Seljuk migration in the 11th century, the Turkification movement started on the land and the Byzantine supremacy in Anatolia was largely broken with the Seljuk victory after 1071 Battle of Manzikert. [12] The Anatolian Seljuks ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243. After the invasion, many small Turkish principalities emerged.