Later, the Anatolian peninsula was given the name Asia ( Ἀσία ), presumably after the name of the Assuwa confederation in western Anatolia.

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.

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.

Nonetheless, today their remains a high prevalence of fair haired and eyed ethnic types in the western Anatolian peninsula, especially around former Galatia proving the continued existence of old Galatian communities.

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 ).

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 ).

In all these cases, ' Lud's portion ' seems to refer to the entire Anatolian peninsula, west of Mesopotamia.

The Phrygian cap was typically worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, in the Anatolian peninsula, and is commonly mistaken for being a Pileus.

* Asia ( Roman province ), Roman Empire occupying the western end of the Anatolian peninsula, in modern-day western Turkey

Frequently interspersed throughout the folded mountains, and also situated on the Anatolian Plateau, are well-defined basins, which the Turks call " ova ".

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

The Mitanni Empire was also an Indo-European ( and Hurrian ) speaking and Anatolian based empire.

In 2002, a tribute album was released under the name Yüreğimdeki Barış Şarkıları (" Peace's Songs In My Heart ", also " Peace Songs In My Heart ") featuring 15 extremely popular Turkish artists of such diverse genres as arabesque, pop and rock ( both Anatolian and western style ) demonstrating his wide range of influence.

Muhtar Cem Karaca ( April 5, 1945-February 8, 2004 ), also called Cem Baba ( Daddy Cem or Father Cem ), was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.

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 ).

It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.

* The Anatolian Lahmacun ( Arabic: laḥm bi ' ajīn ; Armenian: lahmajoun ; also Armenian pizza or Turkish pizza ) is a meat-topped dough round.

Turkish ( Turkish: ), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish or Anatolian Turkish, is the most populous of the Turkic languages, with over 70 million native speakers.

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

Frequently interspersed throughout the folded mountains, and also situated on the Anatolian Plateau, are well-defined basins, which the Turks call ova.

Ptolemy III's navy, perhaps with the aid of rebels in the cities, advances against Seleucus II's forces as far as Thrace, across the Hellespont, and also captures some islands off the Anatolian coast.

It has also been associated with some of the Sea Peoples such as Tursha and Tyrsenoi, with the river Tiras ( Dniester ), and sometimes with the Anatolian region of Troas, dating to the later 13th century BC.

Names similar to Mopsos, whether Greek or Anatolian, are also attested in Near Eastern languages.

If we may believe the transmission of Nicolaus of Damascus who quotes him, Xanthus wrote the name with-ks -, like in the Hittite and Luwian texts ; given that Lydian also belongs to the Anatolian language family, it is possible that Xanthus relied on a local non-Greek tradition according to which Mukšuš was a Luwian.

She was also connected to the Roman goddess of war, Bellona, and the Anatolian goddess Ma.

The term Anatolian is also used to mean any language spoken in Anatolia, whether it belonged to the Anatolian family or not.

Marija Gimbutas ' Kurgan hypothesis is opposed by Paleolithic Continuity Theory, which associates Pit Grave and Sredny Stog Kurgan cultures with Turkic peoples, and the Anatolian hypothesis, and is also opposed by the Black Sea deluge theory.

Anatolian Sipahis sometimes also carried lances.

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.

Turkish carpets ( also known as Anatolian ), whether hand knotted or flat woven, are among the most well known and established hand crafted art works in the world.

Most historians believe this Midas is the same person as the Mita, called king of the Mushki in Assyrian texts, who warred with Assyria and its Anatolian provinces during the same period.

Some historians believe Assyrian texts called this Midas king of the " Mushki " because he had subjected the eastern Anatolian people of that name and incorporated them into his army.

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.

One monument, the Xanthian Obelisk, is a trilingual recording an older Anatolian language conventionally called Milyan.

Among the Sea peoples identified in Egyptian records are the Ekwesh, a group of Bronze Age Greeks ( Achaeans ); Teresh, Tyrrhenians, ancestors of the Etruscans ; Luka, an Anatolian people of the Aegean ( their name survives in the region of Lycia ); Sherden, probably Sardinians ; Shekelesh, probably the Italic tribe called Siculi ; Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines, who might have come from Crete and were with the Tekrur ( possibly Greek Teucrians ) the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples known to have settled permanently in the Levant.

) In terms of etymology, Troy is called Truva by modern Turks, who in terms of Anatolian inhabitants are successors to the Hittites.

Just south of the city walls, at a site still called Santa Venera, a series of small terracotta offertory molded statuettes of a standing female nude wearing the polos headdress of Anatolian and Syrian goddesses, which were dated to the first half of the sixth century BC, were found in the sanctuary ; other similar ones have been excavated at other Paestum sanctuaries during excavations in the 1980s, but the figure is highly unusual in the Western Mediterranean.

In this context, the proto-language before the split of Anatolian would be called Proto-Indo-Hittite, and the proto-language of the remaining branches, before the next split, presumably of Tocharian, would be called Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ).

Togarmah is usually equated with the Anatolian kingdom called Tegarama by the Hittites and Til-Garimmu by the Assyrians.

Josephus placed Gomer and the " Gomerites " in Anatolian Galatia: " For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites.

The peoples of the Anatolian Pontic coast, east of Trabzon from Samsun to Rize Pazar, hold the celebration on 20 May ( or 7 May in the Hegirian calendar ); and in Sürmene, it is called " Litropi.

Also, it called Anatolian Tiger.