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.

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.

Overall, Hellenistic culture in the age that followed Alexander the Great itself showed syncretist features, essentially blending of Mesopotamian, Persian, Anatolian, Egyptian ( and eventually Etruscan – Roman ) elements within an Hellenic formula.

* May 19 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence.

There may have been a historical Tantalus – possibly the ruler of an Anatolian city named " Tantalís ", " the city of Tantalus ", or of a city named " Sipylus " Pausanias reports that there was a port under his name and a sepulchre of him " by no means obscure ", in the same region.

The Neo-Hittite Chimera from Carchemish, dated to 850 – 750 BC, which is now housed in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations no doubt served as a basis for the Greek legend.

“ Tarkasnawa King of Mira: ‘ Tarkendemos ’, Boğazköy Sealings, and Karabel .’ Anatolian Studies 48: 1 – 31.

' In B. J. Collins et al., eds., Anatolian Interfaces, 153 – 7.

“ Tarkasnawa King of Mira: ‘ Tarkendemos ’, Boğazköy Sealings, and Karabel .’ Anatolian Studies 48: 1 – 31.

According to some theories the Gagauz people descend from the Seljuq Turks that settled in Dobruja, or from Pechenegs, Uz ( Oghuz ) and Cuman ( Kipchak ) people that followed the Anatolian Seljuq Sultan Izzeddin Keykavus II ( 1236 – 1276 ).

According to the Seljuk theory, supported by the Polish orientalist T. Kowalski the Gagauz descended from the Seljuk Turks who in the 13th century followed the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kaykaus II ( 1236 – 1276 ) and supposedly settled in the Dobruja region of the medieval Bulgarian kingdom.

Detail from a reconstruction of a Phrygian building at Pararli, Turkey, 7th – 6th Centuries BC ; Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.

Antioch in Pisidia – alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch () and in Roman Empire, Latin: Antiochia Caesareia or Antiochia Caesaria – is a city in the Turkish Lakes Region, which is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Aegean and Central Anatolian regions, and formerly on the border of Pisidia and Phrygia, hence also known as Antiochia in Phrygia.

He suppressed the revolts some of the Anatolian governors of provinces, most notably the revolt of Abaza Hasan Pasha, the ruler of Aleppo and of Ahmed Pasha, Kenan Pasha, Ali Mirza Pasha, Ferhad Pasha, Mustafa Pasha in 1658 – 1659.

The Isfendiyarids or Isfendiyarid dynasty ( Modern Turkish: İsfendiyaroğulları, İsfendiyaroğulları Beyliği ), also known as the Principality of Isfendiyar and Beylik of Isfendiyar ( İsfendiyar Beyliği ), its former name was Jandarids or Principality of Jandar ( Candaroğulları, Candaroğulları Beyliği ), was an Anatolian beylik that ruled principally in the regions corresponding to present-day Kastamonu and Sinop provinces of Turkey, also covering parts of Zonguldak, Bartın, Karabük, Samsun, Bolu, Ankara and Çankırı provinces, between 1292 – 1461, in the Black Sea region of modern day Turkey.

* Indogermanisches Wörterbuch by Gerhard Köbler ( based on the IEW, but includes laryngeals as well as Tocharian and Anatolian material, a short grammar and an English – Indo-European dictionary )

It will prove useful for Anatolian movement against English – French occupiers, for the spread of this movement throughout the Caucasus and for the organization of Soviet power in those places.

" The Anatolian Myth of Illuyanka ," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 14 ( 1982 ) pp 11 – 25.

Proceedings of the Fourth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Mersin, 19 – 23 May 1997, pp. 101 – 110, 1999

Annia Aurelia Faustina ( about 201 – after 222 ) was an Anatolian Roman noblewoman.

Eskişehirspor became one of the better historically rich Anatolian clubs despite having never won the Süper Lig between 1968 – 1975.

Under the Kurgan hypothesis, there are two possibilities for how the early Anatolian speakers could have reached Anatolia: from the north via the Caucasus, and from the west, via the Balkans, the latter of which is considered somewhat more likely by Mallory ( 1989 ) and Steiner ( 1990 ).