As well as the major Persian, Turkish and Arab centres, carpets were also made across Central Asia, in India, and in Spain and the Balkans.

This impressive longevity, combined with an immense territory ( stretching from Anatolia to Tunisia ), led naturally to a vital and distinctive art, including plentiful architecture, mass production of ceramics for both tiles and vessels, most notably Iznik ware, important metalwork and jewellery, Turkish paper marbling Ebru, Turkish carpets as well as tapestries and exceptional Ottoman miniatures and decorative Ottoman illumination.

In 1608 Henry IV initiated the French production of " Turkish style " carpets under the direction of Pierre DuPont.

Dark red Turkish imitations from factories in Qinghai are sold alongside other Chinese rugs and even silk carpets with Middle-eastern designs.

His home in Philadelphia — one of the literary centres of the time ,— bore traces of his Turkish stay — carpets brought from Constantinople, Arabic designs on the draperies, and rich Eastern colours in the tapestried chairs.

The carpets, known as Donegals, are hand-knotted in the Turkish style.

Uşak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets () are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Uşak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th century ( although these patterns were woven in other regions also ).

In the European markets, the earlier types of Turkish carpets, before the " star " type, are now often called " Lotto carpets " and " Holbein carpets ".

Category: Turkish carpets, rugs and kilims

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

In 1529-1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat.

There is also a long string of roadside kiosks selling the local Turkish delight.

Bursa is also home to some of the most famous Turkish dishes such as İskender kebap, specially candied marron glacés, peaches and lokum.

It was influenced by its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan language area ( mostly grammatically ) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of the Ottoman Empire, in the form of the Ottoman Turkish language, mostly lexically.

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

After graduating from high school in 1963, he moved to Europe, travelling around Paris and Liège, where he formed bands with local musicians and recorded some singles mainly in English and in French but also in Turkish.

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.

In addition to many of the Greek Cypriot refugees ( a third of the population ), many Turkish Cypriots ( on whose pretext Turkey invaded ) also moved to the UK and other countries where for the past 30 years they have lived as neighbours with the Greek Cypriots.

Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics ; çatal is Turkish for " fork ", höyük for " mound ") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.

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.

Unlike Standard Turkish ( but like Cypriot Turkish ), Crimean Tatar also has the letter Ñ.

Unlike Turkish, Gagauz also has the letters Ä, Ê Ș and Ț. Ș and Ț are derived from the Romanian alphabet for the same sounds.

:* Turkish uses a G with a breve ( Ğ ), two letters with an umlaut ( Ö and Ü, representing two rounded front vowels ), two letters with a cedilla ( Ç and Ş, representing the affricate and the fricative ), and also possesses a dotted capital İ ( and a dotless lowercase ı representing a high unrounded back vowel ).

He also acquired the Khartoum Medal and the Turkish Order of Mejidieh, fourth class.

* Estonian sina / Finnish sinä ( singular you ) and Turkish sen ( singular you ) ( see also: Ural – Altaic languages )

It is also the official language of Cyprus ( nominally alongside Turkish ).

The senf ( or sinf ) in 10th century Iran were seen to spread also in Arabia and Turkish regions under the name futuwwah or fütüvvet.

* Dolmadakia ( from Turkish dolma ): grapevine leaves stuffed with rice and vegetables ; meat is also often included.

The construction of the Baghdad Railway, financed by German banks, was designed to eventually connect Germany with the Turkish Empire and the Persian Gulf, but it also collided with British and Russian geopolitical interests.

Between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, the Bosporan Kingdom, a Hellenistic polity which succeeded the Greek colonies, was also overwhelmed by successive waves of nomadic invasions, led by warlike tribes which would often move on to Europe, as was the case with the Huns and Turkish Avars.

*** Species M. brandti — Turkish hamster, also called Brandt's hamster ; Azerbaijani hamster

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

Prior to the bubonic plague epidemic known as the Black Death, Mongol and Turkish armies were reported to have catapulted disease-laden corpses into besieged cities.

The 12 year cycle, including Turkish / Mongolian translations of the animal names ( known as sanawat-e turki سنوات ترکی ,) remained in use for chronology, historiography, and bureaucratic purposes in the Persian and Turkish speaking world from Asia Minor to India and Mongolia throughout the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

He is known to have dated Zeynep Urgancı, the ex-wife of Turkish businessman Mehmet Urgancı after Bisset.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

Murad IV Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi ‘) < span dir =" ltr ">( July 26 / 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

Ağca has described himself as a mercenary with no political orientation, although he is known to have been a member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organization.

During the Ottoman period the temple was known to the Greeks as the Palace of Hadrian, while the Turks called it the Palace of Belkis, from a Turkish legend that the temple had been the residence of Solomon's wife.

In Modern Turkish it is known as Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu.

In the foundation myth expressed in the medieval Turkish story known as " Osman's Dream ", the young Osman was inspired to conquest by a prescient vision of empire ( according to his dream, the empire is a big tree whose roots spread through three continents and whose branches cover the sky ).

Sultan Osman II or Othman II ( commonly known as Genç Osman – meaning Osman the Young – in Turkish ) ( Ottoman Turkish عثمان ثانى ‘ O < u > s </ u > mān-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( November 3, 1604 – May 20, 1622 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death on 20 May 1622.

His world map is the oldest known Turkish atlas showing the New World, and one of the oldest maps of America still in existence anywhere ( the oldest known map of America that is still in existence is the map drawn by Juan de la Cosa in 1500 ).

Pergamon's other notable structure is the great temple of the Egyptian gods Isis and / or Serapis, known today as the " Red Basilica " ( or Kızıl Avlu in Turkish ), about one kilometer south of the Acropolis.

The new government was known as the Turkiyah or Turkish regime.

Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i < u > s </ u > ānī, Turkish: II. Selim ; 28 May 1524 – 12 December / 15 December 1574 ), also known as " Selim the Sot ( Mest )" or " Selim the Drunkard "; and as " Sarı Selim " or " Selim the Blond ", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.

In modern times, the city has been known by its Ottoman Turkish name Üsküp () during the time of Ottoman rule and by the Serbian form Skoplje ( Скопље ) during the time of the Royal Yugoslavia between 1912 and 1941.

The literary and official language during the Ottoman Empire period ( c. 1299 – 1922 ) is termed Ottoman Turkish, which was a mixture of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic that differed considerably and was largely unintelligible to the period's everyday Turkish known as kaba Türkçe or " rough Turkish ", spoken by the less-educated lower and also rural members of society, which was much purer and which is the basis of the modern Turkish language.