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The legendary Amazons, women warriors known as the city

Ancient Greek name of the city Amisus Amisos or so later Amiso Eis "Amisosa" this name is used as a form of the Roman and Byzantine period Samsus Samsunta or used . The legendary female warriors known as Amazons, Thermedon Tea near the town of Themiskyra their ancient historians are established.
A better breasts, cut in a variety of sources, which is rumored to abdicate the arrow and the many names mentioned in the legend of the Amazons, Samsun, and the date and region acceptance of cultural values ​​because of the Terme district of the names of each year a festival is held.

Establishing the state's oldest community living within the borders of the province of Samsun, Kaşkalar'dır mentioned in Hittite sources. Hittites, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, who moved to the Black Sea and the Aegean to the last word in the management of the city Miletos became the owner. Persians, king of Lydia Krezüs'u yenmeleriyle Amisos, Empire was conquered by the Persians. Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 331 BC, into the hands of the Amisos, founded by Alexander the death of Mithridates, satrap of Persia took place within the borders of Pontus, more importantly, was the capital of this state. BC 1 Amisos century which was dominated by the Roman Empire, Roman Empire, the separation into two remained within the borders of the Byzantine Empire. Amisos, 860 in the time of the Abbasid Caliph Omar the Terrible Mutassım'ın Royal British force led by the order is captured by the Byzantines were taken back again. Samsun is besieged by the Turks into Anatolia Danişmendliler also could not be together. This is a point away from the city of Samsun on the Danişmendliler that time have built a castle.
Samsun Anatolian Seljuk Muslim settlements in the time of the Anatolian Seljuk rule was in 1185. After the Crusades, including the capital city of Trabzon Samsun Trabzon Greek Empire, which was dominated, as a result of Cenevizliler'in take back 100 years to the Black Sea trade was dominated by the Genoese. This dates the Muslim Turks live in Samsun Samsun, located 3 km from the Genoese trading site called the Gavur Samsun Samsun or Black. Samsun, Bayezid I in 1389 part of the territories of the Ottoman time. The Anatolian Seljuk State was the capital of the principality was in decline Canik.

The number of people living in the Ottoman census in 1893 in Samsun 67,624 people. 33,419 of these 'u (% 49) consists of the Turks. Samsun is the Greek population of 32,925 people (49%). This half of the Greeks from the Turks in the half of the population consists of Samsun. Muslims in the city is equal to the number of Christians.

Iliad, mentioned in the ancient city of Troy, Trojan War passes

Formerly known as Troy or Troy (Hittite: Vilusa or Truvisa, Greek: Τροία, Ίλιον Troy or Ilion, Latin: Troy or Ilium), thought to have been written by Homer in the Iliad, one of the two mentioned in verse epic war passes the ancient city of Troy.
The ancient Mount Ida (Kaz Dagi), on the outskirts is located in the province of Canakkale. In the 1870s by the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the ancient city, near the village of Tevfikiye works largely from Turkey, Germany and Russia. The ancient city, the World Heritage List since 1988, the National Park status since 1996.

French is the language of the ancient city, the effect of "Troi" In reading the word in Turkish, the word in Troy, now replaced by "Troy" has started to leave. If the main reason the city's historical and internationally, "Troy" and is known as the Turkish accurate reading of the word "Trojan" is. But the issue is still controversial. In particular name is common in old documents, the Trojan and the Trojan War is still common name as in the case of Troy, to name some.
The ancient city, the center of the town of Canakkale Tevfikiye west of the village, "Hisarlik Hill" is located at (39 ° 58'K, 26 ° 13). Hill, 200x150m size, 31.2-altitude, and also a large part of the limestone layer.

Hisarlik a hill where the ancient city's long-term bilinmesede, the hill of the archaeological remains in the region, such as the name implies, is near the surface and therefore was called the local sakinlerince hill Hisarlik savunulabilinir opinion. In addition, when it was established the city of Troy Hill Hisarlik, KARAMENDERES and Dümrek River, flows into the bay at the edge of a drop-down her throat, and Gallipoli, it is now thought to a place much closer to the sea.

And given the name of the city, where, today, about the historical district of Çanakkale Province Troas, representing the Asian continent (or Troad) is called.

name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγιά Σοφιά, full name: Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia), The Byzantine Emperor Anno Domini by Justinian 532 to 537 between the old city center of Istanbul's historic peninsula, the patriarch's cathedral is a basilica built displaced, receipt of Istanbul by the Turks in 1453 turned into a mosque by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and today serves as a museum.
Hagia Sophia , in terms of architecture, with a basilica plan, incorporating a central plan, a domed basilica with a dome-type structure and properties of the transition and the structural system is considered to be a turning point in the history of architecture.

The building, called "Sofia" is not the word to any one name, the ancient Greek "wisdom" is the meaning of the word sophos. Therefore, "Hagia Sophia" is called "holy wisdom" or "divine wisdom" is a means, Orthodoxy, God mezhepinde 'is considered one of the three qualities.of the 6th century the famous architect of Milet and Tralles'li Isidoros Anthemius'un , directed the construction of St. Sophia's approximately 10,000 workers worked Justinian spent a great fortune, and is specified for the job. This is a very old building, used to make a feature of some of the columns, doors and stone buildings and temples, is the introduction of an older structure. Byzantine period Patriarch of Constantinople, the patriarch in the church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was the center of the Hagia Sophia, once a major natural as the "holy relics" consisted of a collection.

After the Ottoman sultan Mehmet the Conqueror converted the church into a mosque in 1453, showed great tolerance mozayiklerinden containing human figures have not been destroyed (as in not containing the left), only a thin stucco plaster covered and the centuries under the remaining mozayikler thus survived destruction of natural and artificial. A mosque converted into a museum is a part of the plaster removed and brought to light again mozayikler. In short, all the peoples of the world today to see this mozayikleri owes to a person: he, the art of showing love and respect for other religions, the sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet'tir. Today, essentially the same place in the building of the Hagia Sophia church was built for the third time that the Hagia Sophia is also known as the Third. The first two churches were destroyed during the riots. Sophia is the largest dome in the period of the central dome collapsed several times during the Byzantine period, from adding you ever collapsed because of Mimar Sinan building retaining walls.

Letoon information about the ancient city, near Fethiye

The Letoon, sometimes Latinized as Letoum, was a sanctuary of Leto near the ancient city Xanthos that was one of the most important religious centres of the Lycian region in Anatolia. The site is located between the towns of Kaş and Fethiye in Antalya province of Turkey, approximately four km south of Xanthos along the Xanthos River.
Archaeological finds at the site, which was never a fully occupied settlement, but remained essentially a religious centre, date back to the late sixth century BCE, before the Greek cultural hegemony in Lycia, which began in the early fourth century. In earlier times, the site was probably already sacred to the cult of an earlier mother goddess— she is Eni Mahanahi in Lycia— which was superseded by the worship of Leto, joined by her twin offspring.
The "Lycian" Apollo, a Roman pastiche in a Praxitelean manner
In Greek mythology, a claim for an early cult of Apollo in the valley of the Xanthus, unsupported by history or archaeology, was provided by two myths, each connected to an eponymous "Lycus". One sprang from the autochthonous Telchines of Rhodes and would have colonized the region at the time of Deucalion's flood; the other Lycus was an Athenian brother of Aegeus driven from Athens, a seer who introduced the cult of Lycaean Apollo, which a folk etymology connected with Lycia and therefore made him its Athenian colonizer: see Lycus.

The foundations of the Hellenistic temple dedicated to Leto, and her children, Artemis and Apollo, have been excavated under the direction of H. Metzger from 1962.Archæologists have excavated much of the ruins; discoveries include the Letoon trilingual, bearing inscriptions in Greek, Lycian and Aramaic, which has provided crucial keys in the deciphering of the Lycian language; it is conserved in the Fethiye Museum.

The sacrosanctity of the site is the purport of an anecdote related by Appian concerning Mithridates, who was planning to cut down the trees in the sacred grove for his own purposes in his siege of the Lycian coastal city of Patara, but was warned against the sacrilegious action in a nightmare. The site remained active through the Roman period. The site was Christianised by the construction of an early church, which reused cut stone from the sanctuary, but was abandoned from the seventh century CE.

Turkey wants the stolen head of a marble statue

The Independent newspaper of Britain's leading museums of the Turkish authorities by contacting the Victoria and Albert more than 100 years long ago moved to London from Anatolia were demanding the return of a piece he wrote in a sarcophagus.
Marble sculpture in the form per child, according to the newspaper is currently being held in London, the museum's store. Sidamara 25-ton sarcophagus on display in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. The newspaper, like in this period of 1700 years Sidamara Lahdi'nin one of the finest examples of records has been accepted. Sarcophagus, in 1879 the archaeologist Sir Charles Wilson by the time British Consul and the Konya-Eregli found near an excavation. Wilson on the Tomb figure of a boy with his head to London in 1882 led to dismantle. Curly-haired figure, looking over his shoulder, likened to the Greek god of love Eros'a. Independent, sarcophagi marble head of the consul kopartan, then take in the whole of the work the grave with the intention of shipping the top of the backfilled örttüğünü transfers. The stolen figure in the later donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum by descendants of the former consul. Indepedent, taken to England in a way similar to the Parthenon Mermerleri'nin poses reminiscent of the unresolved issue for years between England and Greece. Conditions for return Transmitting the words of the Turkish tourism officials in London, Mohamed Tüylüoğlu'nun Independent, last year's contact with the government of Turkey passed a museum, but so far the success of the work sağlayamadıklarını reports the return of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Speaking at the Independent British museum authorities,''Turkey's demand seriously reviewing''they say. Museum for the return of the works according to the rules "is not approved retention" or "disposal of the students and the public is not at a loss" requirement sought.