Turkey (tur)

Turkey

Turkey ranks 4,463rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Castlebar, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and Staßfurt. Memorable people born in Turkey include Ulfilas, Nizamüddin Ahmed Pasha, and Burhan Sargun. Memorable people who died in Turkey include Justinian II, Ismail al-Jazari, and Occhiali. Turkey has been the birth place of many religious figures and politicians and the death place of many politicians and inventors. Turkey is located in Turkey.

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly 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; Istanbul is its largest city, and its economic and financial center, as well as the largest city in Europe. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa and Antalya. Read more on Wikipedia