Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

Narseh moved south into Roman Mesopotamia in 297, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ) ( and thus, the historian Fergus Millar notes, probably somewhere on the Balikh River ).

Daoudy and Frenken put the length of the Euphrates from the source of the Murat River to the confluence with the Tigris at, of which falls in Turkey, in Syria and in Iraq.

The Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, ruled an area from Greece and Turkey to the Indus River and Central Asia during the 6th to 4th centuries BC.

* Maeander River ( or Meander River ), a historical name of the Büyük Menderes River in Turkey

* Meander ( mythology ), a river god in Greek mythology and patron of the Maeander River in Turkey

In Asiatic Turkey, flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Antalya and Adana, and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyükmenderes River, and some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and Konya Ovasi ( Konya Basin ).

Turkey officially ceded Adakale Island in the River Danube to Romania with Articles 25 and 26 of the Treaty of Lausanne ; by formally recognizing the related provisions in the Treaty of Trianon of 1920.

The Statue of Strabo at his homeland, Amasya / Turkey, along the Iris River

* Lycus ( river of Pontus ), also known as Kelkit, a river in the Black Sea Region of Turkey and the longest tributary of the Yeşil River

The county is divided into nineteen townships: Belvoir, Dismal, Franklin, Halls, Herring, Honeycutt, Lisbon, Little Coharie, McDaniels, Mingo, Newton Grove, North Clinton, Piney Grove, Plain View, South Clinton, South River, Taylors Bridge, Turkey, and Westbrook.

Near Deep River creek was a settlement named Deep River ; near Turkey Creek was another settlement with that creek's name.

Colesburg is located at ( 42. 639999 ,-91. 201246 ) near the Little Turkey River.

Clermont is located at ( 42. 999339 ,-91. 654699 ) on the Turkey River.

Elgin is located at ( 42. 955965 ,-91. 636394 ) at the confluence of Otter Creek with the Turkey River.

Waucoma is located at ( 43. 056929 ,-92. 032580 ) on the Little Turkey River.

The island has strong northern winds which makes it one of the most suitable places for wind energy in the Aegean region of Turkey, and, with recent wind turbines, it exports electricity to the mainland.

Shamals result from strong northwest winds that are funnelled into the Persian Gulf by the mountains of Turkey and Iraq to the northeast and the high plains of Saudi Arabia to the southwest.

Land routes through Azerbaijan and Turkey are closed ; routes through Georgia and Iran are adequate and reliable.

An economic blockade with Turkey and Azerbaijan has cut Armenia's rail link between Gyumri and Kars to Turkey ; the rail link with Iran through the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan ; and a natural gas and oil pipeline line with Azerbaijan.

Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

Cargo shipments to landlocked Armenia are routed through ports in Georgia and Turkey.

Proposed international corridors would pass from north to south, from Vidin to the border with Greece and from Ruse to the border with Greece, and west to east, from Serbia through Sofia to Burgas, Varna, and Edirne ( Turkey ).

During World War II, through February 1945, when Turkey was neutral for most of the length of the conflict, the Dardanelles were closed to the ships of the belligerent nations.

These risks can be reduced through seismic retrofitting of at-risk buildings, ( e. g. School buildings in Istanbul, Turkey ).

The critic Michael Medved characterized examples of the " so bad it's good " class of low-budget cult film through books such as The Golden Turkey Awards.

Spreading its reach in seventeenth-century Turkey, inoculation or, rather, variolation, involved infecting a person through a cut in the skin with exudate from a patient with a relatively mild case of smallpox ( variola ), in order to bring about a manageable and recoverable infection that will provide later immunity.

Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

In the 1920s, Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive foreign policy that included an attack on the Greek island of Corfu, aims to expand Italian territory in the Balkans, plans to wage war against Turkey and Yugoslavia, attempts to bring Yugoslavia into civil war by supporting Croat and Macedonian separatists to legitimize Italian intervention, and making Albania a de facto protectorate of Italy, which was achieved through diplomatic means by 1927.

* In April 2005, an agreement was signed to build a railway from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan ( see Kars Baku Tbilisi railway line ) probably using ( Standard gauge ) supposedly so that it can eventually link with China.

The mountains in the northeast are an extension of the alpine system that runs eastward from the Balkans through southern Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, eventually reaching the Himalayas.

The were-boar variant is known through Greece and Turkey.

Weapons supplies were made available to the Mujahideen through numerous countries ; the United States purchased all of Israel's captured Soviet weapons clandestinely, and then funnelled the weapons to the Mujahideen, while Egypt upgraded their own army's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their World War II stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe missiles and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns respectively, after they were found to be poor models for their own forces.

After the entry of Turkey on the side of the Central Powers in October 1914, Russia was deprived of a major trade route through Turkey, which followed with a minor economic crisis, in which Russia became incapable of providing munitions to their army in the years leading to 1917.

Turkey's current administration has identified EU membership as its top priority, and has taken many – and sometimes controversial – reform packages through the Parliament aimed at gradually harmonizing Turkey with EU standards.

linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other Commonwealth of Independent States republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch ; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established ; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat ; satellite earth stations-1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat

Franks argues that by keeping the ships at sea the Iraqis were deceived into believing a U. S. attack was yet to come from the north through Turkey, though Colin Powell and others have questioned his view ( Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward, 2004 ).

It is native to a large area of Europe, stretching from the Pyrenees in the west, through France and Germany to Poland in the north, Italy, Northern Greece, Ukraine, and European Turkey.

The Aegean Region consists of nine provinces in southwestern Turkey, in part bordering on the Aegean sea.

Thales ( 635-543 BC ) of Miletus ( now in southwestern Turkey ), was the first to whom deduction in mathematics is attributed.

The proposed Syrian country includes Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait ; and southern Turkey, northern Egypt, and southwestern Iran.

Mesopotamia ( from the: " between rivers "; ( bilād al-rāfidayn ); ( beth nahrain ): " land of rivers ") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris – Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.

The borders of Lycia varied over time but at its centre was the Teke peninsula of southwestern Turkey, which juts into the Mediterranean Sea in a north-south direction, is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Fethiye, and on the east by the Gulf of Antalya.

However, progress has been slow in comparison with the western and the southwestern parts of Turkey.

It has been a staple food in southern Europe, Turkey and southwestern and eastern Asia for millennia, largely replacing cereals where these would not grow well, if at all, in mountainous Mediterranean areas.

Temperate rain forests occur only in seven regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southwestern South America, the rain forests of New Zealand and Tasmania, northwest Europe ( small pockets in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Iceland and a somewhat larger area in Norway ), southern Japan, and the eastern Black Sea-Caspian Sea region of Turkey and Georgia to northern Iran.

Fraxinus excelsior — known as the ash, or European ash or common ash to distinguish it from other types of ash — is a species of Fraxinus native to most of Europe with the exception of northern Scandinavia and southern Iberia, and also southwestern Asia from northern Turkey east to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains.

The 330 m long Limyra Bridge in southwestern Turkey features 26 segmental arches with an average span-to-rise ratio of 5. 3: 1, giving the bridge an unusually flat profile unsurpassed for more than a millennium.

The goitered, black-tailed or Persian gazelle ( Gazella subgutturosa ) is a gazelle found in northern Azerbaijan, part of Iran, and southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Turkey, and the Gobi Desert.

Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry ( Prunus ), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.

In its fullest extent, the state expanded into territories which today comprise most of Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, western Afghanistan and southwestern Pakistan.

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters.

The Büyük Menderes River ( historically the Maeander or Meander, from Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος, Maíandros ); ), is a river in southwestern Turkey.

Aydın Province () is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region.

Pamukkale, meaning " cotton castle " in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey.

These other remaining populations are in Madeira, with 30 to 35 individuals, and the Desertas Islands ( both in the Atlantic Ocean ) and southwestern Turkey and the Ionian Sea ( both in the eastern Mediterranean ).

Found in Africa, western Asia from Turkey to northwestern India, on Socotra Island, from the southwestern United States south through Mexico and Central America to South America, though not in the high Andes.

The settings for the story are the western and southwestern parts of Iran, as well as neighboring Persian Gulf states, Turkey to Lake Van, and the environs of Aberdeen, Scotland.

* Büyük Menderes River, river in southwestern Turkey

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 AD ), showing, in western Anatolia, the senatorial province of Asia ( southwestern Turkey )

Siberian squill is native to southwestern Russia, the Caucasus, and Turkey.

Hacilar is an early human settlement in southwestern Turkey, 25 km southwest of present day Burdur.