Turkey

[Turkish: Turkiye]

by John Astell


Status: Independent nation; republic
Capital: Ankara
Major Ethnic Groups: Turks, Kurds
Cities: 26; 1 full, 5 dot, 20 ref

map:hexWZcitysttname & notes
3B:4429Dref-Edirne
3B:5022DfullcpIstanbul (also called Constantinople)
3B:5113DrefcpZonguldak (also 20:0113)
3B:5122DdotcpUskudar (also 20:0122) (also called Scutari)
20:0320Drefcplzmit (aka Kocaeli)
21:0529DrefcpSamsun
20:0523Dref-Bursa
20:0627Dref-Balikesir
20:0818Edot-Eskisehir
21:0919DrefcpTrabzon
20:1010Edot-Ankara (called Angora until 1930)
20:1131EdotcpIzmir (aka Smyrna)
21:1308Cref-Kars (also 9A:1329)
21:1428Eref-Sivas
21:1614Cref-Erzurum
21:1620Cref-Erzincan
20:1802Eref-Kayseri
20:1914Eref-Konya
21:2225Dref-Malatya
20:2221ErefcpAntalya (aka Adalia)
21:2407Cref-Van (also 9A:2428, 22:0428)
21:2619Eref-Diyarbakir
20:2605Edot-Adana
20:2708ErefcpMersin (aka Icel)
21:2824Eref-Urfa (ancient/medieval Edessa)
20:2903ErefcpIskanderun (aka Alexandretta) (Transferred to Turkey from Syria by France, July 1939)


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