The American Mastiff is a molosser-type dog created by Fredericka Wagner of Flying W Farms by crossing an English Mastiff and an Anatolian Mastiff.

In an attempt to address issues of hip displasia, drooling, and a short lifespan, Fredericka Wagner of Flying W Farms crossed an English Mastiff with an Anatolian Mastiff, a breed known for its intelligence and lengthy lifespan for a large breed.

* Anatolian Mastiff

A wall painting, which may depict the ancient Anatolian city of Çatalhöyük ( previously known as Catal Huyuk or Çatal Hüyük ), has been dated to the late 7th millennium BCE.

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around the 18th century BC, which reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, encommpassing an area that included most of Asia Minor as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.

Although traditional Judaism had adopted some features of Kabbalah, it adapted them to fit its own system: it added to its own ritualism the asceticism of the " practical kabbalists " just across the eastern borders in the ancient Greek and Anatolian Jewish communities under the Ottoman Empire, who saw the essence of earthly existence only in fasting, in penance, and in spiritual sadness.

In ancient times the surrounding districts were, from west to east, Caria, Pisidia, and Pamphylia, all equally as ancient, and each speaking its own Anatolian language.

A recent Genetic study in 2011 analyzed 51 southern French individuals from Provence in southern mainland France and 89 Anatolian Greek subjects whose paternal ancestry derives from Smyrna and Asia Minor Phokaia, the ancestral embarkation port to the 6th century BCE ancient Greek colonies of Massalia ( Marseilles ) and Alalie ( Aleria, Corsica ).

* Hittites, ancient Anatolian people

He is connected with Tabal, an Anatolian kingdom, and by way of the ancient tribe of the Tibareni both with the Iberians of the Caucasus and those of the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ).

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

Scholars have theorized that Agdistis is part of a continuum of androgynous Anatolian deities, including an ancient Phrygian deity probably named " Andistis " and one called " Adamma ", stretching all the way back to the ancient kingdom of Kizzuwatna in the 2nd millennium BC.

As the center of ancient Lycia and the site of its most extensive antiquities, Xanthus has been a mecca for students of Anatolian civilization since the early 19th century.

This myth taken as a whole seems designed to confer legitimacy to dynastic change in this central Anatolian kingdom: thus Alexander's " brutal cutting of the knot ... ended an ancient dispensation.

Tunna was an ancient Anatolian city during the Syro-Hittite period, and later was a part of the Classical Trunna.

The Anatolian languages are a family of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in Asia Minor ( ancient Anatolia ), the best attested of them being the Hittite language.

According to some ancient sources, notably Strabo, the northwestern section of the Anatolian peninsula, namely the ancient regions of Bithynia, Phrygia and Mysia, were occupied by tribes of Thracian or Dacian origin and thus spoke dialects of the Thracian or Dacian languages ( which, Strabo claimed, were in turn closely related ).

* Anatolian Shepherd Dog, an ancient breed of dog from Anatolia

The question of whether the Biblical Hittites of the first half of the first millennium BC are identical to the earlier Anatolian Hittites is still disputed in academic Biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.

The diverse ethnic groups in this ancient part of the world initially gave cause for the concerts to have artists perform interpretations of Anatolian folksongs in Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian.

In general, the art and architecture found at Pasargadae exemplified the Persian synthesis of various traditions, drawing on precedents from Elam, Babylon, Assyria, and ancient Egypt, with the addition of some Anatolian influences.

Tyana or Tyanna (, Hittite Tuwanuwa ) was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern south-central Turkey.

The infiltration of several ancient, chiefly Anatolian, tribes into the territory of modern-day Georgia and their fusion with the autochthons played a decisive role in this process.

* Anatolian Black Goat, a Turkish breed of goat

* Anatolian Black, a breed of cattle

* Veiwpoint on the Anatolian, Kangal and Akbash breed debate

Because Kangal name and breed has not been thoroughly defined and documented until recently, because of the slightly similar appearance and desire to capitalize on unique qualities of the breed, Anatolian Shepherd Dogs in general are sometimes labeled Kangals.

Kangal is a distinct breed from Karabash, Akbash and the generic Anatolian Shepherd Dog.

* Veiwpoint on the Anatolian, Kangal and Akbash breed debate

* Anatolian Shepherd Dog, a breed of dog

The addition of a guard animal, such as an Komondor or Anatolian Shepherd dog, controls predators.

İzmir's cuisine has largely been affected by its multicultural history, hence the large variety of food originating from the Aegean, Mediterranean and Anatolian regions.

The Aegean Sea (;, Aigaio Pelagos ; or historically ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i. e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, all remaining ethnic Anatolian Greeks were forced out during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

600-550 BC in Anatolia, which corresponds to modern-day Turkey, in particular in the Anatolian kingdom of Lydia.

It runs between the East Anatolian Fault zone in Turkey and the northern end of the Red Sea Rift offshore of the southern tip of Sinai.

The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault ( 1857, 1906 ), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey ( 1939 ) and the Denali Fault in Alaska ( 2002 ), are about half to one third as long as the lengths along subducting plate margins, and those along normal faults are even shorter.

Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th century and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East.

The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey houses the richest collection of Hittite and Anatolian artifacts.

< center > Reconstruction of the Tumulus MM burial </ center > Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey

In Turkey, Anatolian rock artist Erkin Koray blended classic Turkish music and Middle Eastern themes into his psychedelic-driven rock, helping to found the Turkish rock scene with artists such as Cem Karaca, Mogollar and Baris Manco.

The Anatolian part of Turkey accounts for 97 % of the country's area.

It is also known as Asia Minor, Asiatic Turkey or the Anatolian Plateau.

" European " Fallow Deer historically lived over much of Europe during the Ice Ages, but afterwards became restricted primarily to the Anatolian Peninsula, in present-day Turkey.

* Anatolian leopard ( P. p. tulliana ) inhabits Western Turkey

* Museum of Anatolian Civilizations ( Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi ), a museum in Ankara, Turkey

* Anatolian freshwater ( Syria, Turkey )

Stele of Sultanhan, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.

Anadoluhisarı ( Anatolian Castle ) is a fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian ( Asian ) side of the Bosporus, which also gives its name to the quarter around it.

* Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey – 1989 ( Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18779-4 )

As other rock genres gained popularity in Turkey, Anatolian rock also began to diversify.

Other countries have similar types of schools, such as specialist schools in Britain or Anatolian high schools in Turkey.

As Moscow was also preparing to support Armenian claims to several other Anatolian provinces, war against Turkey seemed possible, and Joseph Stalin wanted to clear the strategic Georgian-Turkish border where the Meskhetian Turks were settled and who were likely to be hostile to such Soviet intentions.