-Turkey is a peninsula surrounded by three major seas; the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
-Asian side of Turkey is known as Anatolia (97% of the country).
-Turkey, also known as Asia Minor is located at a point where Asia and Europe meet.
-Turkey is the land where Alexander the Great cut the intricate Gordian Knot.
- Kind Midas, who turned everyting into gold was from Anatolia.
-Anatolia is the birthplace of St. Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus.
- St. Paul was born in Tarsus, Turkey.
- The first known beauty contest, judged by Paris was held in Anatolia with Aphrodite, Hera and Athena as participants.
-Anatolia is the location of the first temple built (Urfa – between 9000 and 8500BC) and the first church built (St Peter’s in Antioch).
-The Seven Churches of Revelation are located in Turkey; Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Tyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea.
- One of the early philosophers Heraclitus was born in Ephesus Turkey.
-The first church dedicated to Mother Mary is in Ephesus Turkey.
-Roots of the names of Paris, Philadelphia and Europe are in Turkey.
- Mount Agri (Ararat) is where Noah’s Ark landed in Eastern Anatolia.
- Two of the Seven Wonders of the World; the Temple of Artemis and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are in Anatolia.
-Istanbul was the capital of two of the major empires in history; the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.
