Turkey

Turkey

Turkey ranks 1,922nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Milton Keynes, and Příbram. Memorable people born in Turkey include Ulfilas, Romanos I Lekapenos, and Diodotus Tryphon. Memorable people who died in Turkey include Sargon II, Ismail al-Jazari, and Occhiali. Turkey has been the birth place of many politicians, and historians and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Turkey is located in Türkiye.

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turks, while ethnic Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Officially a secular state, Turkey has a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city, while Istanbul is its largest city and economic and financial center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. Read more on Wikipedia