İSTANBUL. By far the largest city in Turkey, and its chief port and centre of trade, is Istanbul, formerly known...

Eskişehir, city, west-central Turkey. It lies along the Porsuk River, a tributary of the Sakarya River, at a point about...

TROY ANCIENT CITY Troy, Greek Troia, also called Ilios or Ilion, Latin Troia, Troja, or Ilium, ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of...

DARA ANCIENT CITY Darius I, byname Darius the Great, (born 550 BC—died 486), king of Persia in 522–486 BC, one of the...

    Göbeklitepe There are substantial grounds to claim that the most significant archaeological discovery of the 21st century...