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Since biblical times, Anatolia has played a major part in the history of civilisation. The Old Testament contains a wealth of references to the land and its peoples, from Abraham, father of the Jewish nation, who came from Edessa (now Sanluirfa), to Noah, whose ark is said to have landed on Mount ararat. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers, both rising in the mountains of eastern Anatolia, nurtured between them the great civilisations of the fertile Crescent, while ancient Mesopotamia now lies in south eastern Turkey.
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countries, hoyiik in Turkey), formed by many generations of mudbrick houses crumbling on a single spot. We know the Bronze Age Anatolians largely from their pottery — dark, red, or burnished to a metallic sheen.
The most famous of all the mounds is at Troy, where the original city was founded in
about 3000 BC.
Few details have survived under the later levels, but this seems to have been a highly sophisticated community, with large houses (one almost 20 metres/65 ft by 7 metres/ 25 ft), while the sturdy city walls indicate that both politics and warfare were flourishing.
By now, prehistory had ended in Egypt and Mesopotamia, but Anatolia, a patchwork of minor kingdoms and city states, had to wait another thousand years for written records. Nevertheless, archaeological sites show continuous occupation, increasing sophistication in house-building and pottery, and growing trade connections. To this period belong Mersin and Troy II, where Ilcinrich Nclilirinann was .
Hos geldiniz!"- Welcome to Turkey.
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