Turkey

Turkey

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  • 700 BCE

    How it started

    How it started
    The History of Anatolia, which is now called Turkey started out in 700 BCE . Where it was first located in Konya which is located in central Turkey.
  • 550 BCE

    The Invasion of the Persian Empire

    The Invasion of the Persian Empire
    In 550 BCE, the Persian Empire invaded the region of Anatolia. Though then in 334 BCE some of his people got defeated while they were in Anatolia.
  • 334 BCE

    Ankara

    Ankara
    After Alexander the Great invaded Macedonia and almost all of the Middle East and after his death he had to split his Empire among three of his generals. Which then they ended up having many civil wars. Then the Celts conquered Ankara and made it their capital.
  • 129 BCE

    The Romans

    The Romans
    In 129 BCE, the Romans conquered Anatolia. Which they then decided to make Ephesus as their new capital in their region.
  • 330

    Hagia sophia

    Hagia sophia
    The Roman Emperor Desios built a great city on the site of Byzantine Greece which was in Constantinople which it was considered as new Rome. Then Emperor Justinian brought the Byzantine Empire and took over Italy, Egypt, Anatolia and North Africa. The victory was then held in Hagia sophia which was a church at first that turned into a mosque.
  • 1280

    Ottoman Empire

    Ottoman Empire
    In 1280, Turkish warriors took over the coast of the Marmara Sea. One of its first leader was Osman and he made an empire near Bursa that turned into the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1402

    The Battle of Ankara

    The Battle of Ankara
    The Ottoman Empire fell to Tamerlane after the defeat of the Ottomans in the battle of Ankara. The result was that they took the Sultan to Samarkand capital of Mongolia where he died in 1403.
  • 1453

    Constantinople

    Constantinople
    Muhammad I the conqueror opened Constantinople (Istanbul), which then the great period of ottoman power began. Muhammad II then conquered Constantinople then made it the capital of the state.
  • 1520

    Sultan Suleiman

    Sultan Suleiman
    The ottoman power was the highest under Sultan Suleiman's rule. As the state reached the highest of its military, economics and foreign policy.
  • 1566

    How it lost Power

    How it lost Power
    Sultan Suleiman then died of which the state started to loose its power. Then Selim II then expanded the State to Cyrus and Tunisia. Though after a while it was defeated during Selim the III in Bucharest.