Turkey may become a nice place to spend your vacation and free period of time in. But your decision may be to have Turkey travel guide. Diversity and beauty of Turkey is her temper that she shows to both Europe and Asia because Turkey is like a frontier on the border of these parts of the world. The principal territory of Turkey is situated in Asia and called Anatolia. And Europe has received only 3 percent of Turkey like a small tribute to Asia. Turkey is mostly the land of hills and rocks. Look at the geographical map of this country and you may see that lowlands are located on the shores and dales of the rivers. Aegean, Black and Mediterranean seas surround Turkey from the west, north and south.



In the mountain area of eastern Anatolia the temperature falls to 30 degrees Celsius during the winter. But on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea warm subtropical climate predominates. 66 million is the amount of Turkey's people but this is not the top of it because it is increasing every year. Ankara is not as famous as Istanbul but it is the metropolis of Turkey. It is in the centre of Turkey where the rocks penetrate Heaven. But the biggest and the most popular city is Istanbul. It embraces Bosporus channel and it is located in both Europe and Asia continents. Today Istanbul changed into a huge mega polis with 15 million of citizens. The greatest part of Turkey's industrial capability is situated right here.

The Turkish language has a status of the state Turkey's tongue. It concerns to the Turkic tongues that are widespread from Balkans to Siberia. It may change and this quality was applied during the language reform in the previous century. During the several ages Turks used Arabian alphabet that was not convenient for their language. In the beginning of the twentieth century linguists decided to apply Roman alphabet. Some words are precisely reproduced in writing with the assistance of this ABC the same as they are pronounced. But there were many different changes in the content of speech. Changes concerned the lexis structure. Linguists removed the Arabian and Persian notions. Scholars used many other terms of different Turkic peoples. And new equivalents for the notions that didn't exist in the language appeared.

Turks are the main nation of the country. But there are a lot of other nations that live there. The look of a Turk will vary in different parts of the country. People can vary from blonds to wonderful dark haired men. Islam is the main religion for 99 percent of people. Turkey's money is Turkish lira. The day of the republic declaration became a national feast from 1923.

But there are a great amount of other cities where you may go, for example Adana. There you can do anything you like because it seems that people has found this place for your satisfaction. It is really magnificent and a great number of hotels are always glad to meet you.

You may get from Europe to Asia or vice versa through Dardanelles. Through this way Greeks came to war with Persians and vice versa. In the twelfth century b. c. here was built a great city of Troy. Trojan rulers didn't like to let go Greeks through this way and it was the cause for the Trojan War. And Homer wrote his poem about Helena and Paris only after five or six centuries. Troy was discovered only in the nineteenth century by the archeologist H. Schliemann who had a time and means to satisfy his desire and to dispel the problems of many researchers.

But everything depends on you look at the map and choose where to go. You may come to Eskisehir, Malatya, Trabzon or any other place you wish.