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Turkey - the country's history app for iPhone and iPad


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Games Book Puzzle Trivia
Developer: Evgeny Erohin
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 24 Apr 2016
App size: 25.75 Mb

* Study the history of great country through interactive reading *
* Become a real expert and participate in the global rankings of erudites *

The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the region now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey) and Eastern Thrace (the European part of Turkey). For times predating the Ottoman period, a distinction must be made between the history of the Turkic peoples, and the history of the territories now forming the Republic of Turkey, essentially the histories of ancient Anatolia and Thrace. The name Turkey is derived from Middle Latin Turchia, i.e. the "land of the Turks", historically referring to an entirely different territory of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which fell under the control of Turkic peoples in the early medieval period. From the time when parts of what is now Turkey was conquered by Turks, the history of Turkey spans the medieval history of the Seljuk Empire, the medieval to modern history of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Republic of Turkey since the 1920s....