* Kangal Dog Turkish / Anatolian Shepherd

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

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

* Anatolian Mastiff, an ancient breed of dog originating in Turkey ( when it was part of the Persian Empire in 485 AD )— see Anatolian Shepherd Dog

* Alec Baldwin as Butch-An Anatolian Shepherd and experienced field agent and Lou's mentor.

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.

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* Anatolian Shepherd Dog

* Anatolian Shepherd Dog, a breed of dog

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The most valuable evidence, if relevant, are the treaties and letters mentioned in Hittite cuneiform texts of the same approximate era, which mention an unruly Western Anatolian warlord named Piyama-Radu ( possibly Priam ) and his successor Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander, the nickname of Paris ) both based in Wilusa ( possibly Ilion / Ilios ), as well as the god Apaliunas ( possibly Apollo ).

Other biblical scholars have argued that rather than being connected with Heth, son of Canaan, instead the Anatolian land of Hatti was mentioned in Old Testament literature and apocrypha as " Kittim " ( Chittim ), a people said to be named for a son of Javan.

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.

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.

Turkish Air Force has a similar training program which is given in air-to-air and air-to-ground simulated warfare conditions based on highly developed ACMI ( Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation ) system, named Anatolian Eagle.

First of all, he made an agreement with the rebel representative from Anatolian lands, which was named “ Sened-i Ittifak ”(" The Alliance Treaty ").

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

The Black Sea coast is characterized by a range of steep mountains that extend along the entire length of the coast, separating it from the inland Anatolian plateau.

Unlike the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians, whose Anatolian possessions were peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia, the Hittites were centred at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia by 2000 BC.

By the end of the 14th century, most of Anatolia was controlled by various Anatolian beyliks.

Military fiefs, governed by Seljuq princes, were established to provide support for the soldiery and to accommodate the nomadic Turks to the established Anatolian agricultural scene.

A cheap way to explore the Bosphorus is offered by the public ferries that traverse the Bosphorus from Eminönü ( ferries dock at the Boğaz İskelesi ) on the historic peninsula of Istanbul to Anadolu Kavağı near the Black Sea, zigzagging between the Rumelian and Anatolian sides of the city.

Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

The population of most of the Hittite Empire by this time spoke Luwian dialects, another Indo-European language of the Anatolian family that had originated to the west of the Hittite region.

The clashes there were short-lived as the Ottoman forces withdrew to the Anatolian mainland, so that the island was securely in Greek hands by 16 March.

Malik-Shah was succeeded in the Anatolian Sultanate of Rûm by Kilij Arslan I, and in Syria by his brother Tutush I, who died in 1095.

Assyrian tablets from the reign of Sargon II record attacks by a " Mita ", king of the Mushki, against Assyria's eastern Anatolian provinces.

Alarmed by Osman's growing influence, the Byzantines gradually fled the Anatolian countryside and dedicated their resources to the Navy instead.

Turkish peoples had founded a number of principalities after the demise of the Anatolian Sultanate of Rum, after its defeat by the Ilkhanate Mongols.

For example, the Philistine word for captain, ' seren ', may be related to the Greek word tyrannos ( thought by linguists to have been borrowed by the Greeks from an Anatolian language, such as Luwian or Lydian ).

Sidetes managed to bring the Maccabees to heel ; frighten the Anatolian dynasts into a temporary submission ; and then, in 133, turned east with the full might of the Royal Army ( supported by a body of Jews under the Maccabee prince, John Hyrcanus ) to drive back the Parthians.

His parents were of non-Gothic Anatolian origin but had been enslaved by Goths on horseback.

* The Anatolian city of Zeugma on the Euphrates was sacked by Persian King Shapur I.

The first part of his long reign was dominated by civil war against powerful generals from the Anatolian aristocracy.

Within months, the land laws of Basil II were dropped under pressure from the Anatolian aristocracy ( the dynatoi ), although Constantine struck at the nobility when threatened by conspiracy.

For a 20 year period, Van was held by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate until the 1240s when it was conquered by the Mongols.