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Prehistory
Prehistory of Anatolia
Palaeolithic Anatolia
c. 500,000– 10,000 BC
Mesolithic Anatolia
c. 11,000– 9,000 BC
Neolithic Anatolia
c. 8,000– 5,500 BC
Bronze Age
Troy
3000–700 BC
Hattians
2500–2000 BC
Akkadian Empire
2400–2150 BC
Luwians
2300–1400 BC
Assyria
1950–1750 BC
Kussara
1780–1680 BC
Achaeans (Homer)
1700–1300 BC
Kizzuwatna
1650–1450 BC
Hittites
1680–1220 BC
Arzawa
1500–1320 BC
Mitanni
1500–1300 BC
Hayasa-Azzi
1500–1290 BC
Lycia
1450–350 BC
Assuwa
1300–1250 BC
Diauehi
1200–800 BC
Neo-Hittites
1200–800 BC
Phrygia
1200–700 BC
Caria
1150–547 BC
Tuwanuwa
1000–700 BC
Ionia
1000–545 BC
Urartu
859–595/585 BC
Iron Age
Diauehi
1200–800 BC
Neo-Hittites
1200–800 BC
Phrygia
1200–700 BC
Caria
1150–547 BC
Doris
1100–560 BC
Aeolis
1000–560 BC
Tuwanuwa
1000–700 BC
Ionia
1000–545 BC
Urartu
859–595/585 BC
Median Empire
678–549 BC
Lydia
685–547 BC
Classical Age
Classical Anatolia
Classical Thrace
Achaemenid Empire
559–331 BC
Kingdom of Alexander the Great
334–301 BC
Kingdom of Cappadocia
322–130 BC
Antigonids
306–168 BC
Seleucid Empire
305–64 BC
Ptolemaic Kingdom
305–30 BC
Kingdom of Pontus
302–64 BC
Bithynia
297–74 BC
Attalid kingdom
282–129 BC
Galatia
281–64 BC
Parthian Empire
247 BC–224 AD
Armenian Empire
190 BC–428 AD
Roman Republic
133–27 BC
Commagene
163 BC–72 AD
Ancient Rome
133 BC-27 BC–330 AD
Sasanian Empire
224–651 AD (briefly in Anatolia)
Medieval Age
Medieval Anatolia
Eastern Roman Empire
(330–1453; 1204-1261 in exile as Empire of Nicaea)
Rashidun Caliphate
(637–656)
Great Seljuk State
(1037–1194)
Danishmends
(1071–1178)
Sultanate of Rum
(1077–1307)
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
(1078–1375)
Anatolian beyliks
(1081–1423)
County of Edessa
(1098–1150)
Artuqids
(1101–1409)
Empire of Trebizond
(1204–1461)
Latin Empire
(1204–1261)
Karamanids
(1250–1487)
Ilkhanate
(1256–1335)
Kara Koyunlu
(1375–1468)
Ak Koyunlu
(1378–1501)
Ottoman Era
Periods of Ottoman Empire
Rise
(1299–1453)
Classical Age
(1453–1566)
Transformation
(1566–1703)
Old Regime
(1703–1789)
Decline and modernization
(1789–1908)
Defeat and dissolution
(1908–1922)
Republic of Turkey
Periods of Turkey
War of Independence
(1919–1922)
Provisional government
(1920–1923)
One-party period
(1923–1930) (1930–1945)
Multi-party period
(1945–present)
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The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the region now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey) and Eastern Thrace (the European part of Turkey). These two previously politically distinct regions came under control of the Roman Empire in the second century BC, eventually becoming the core of the Roman Byzantine Empire. For times predating the Ottoman period, a distinction should also be made between the history of the Turkic peoples, and the history of the territories now forming the Republic of Turkey[1][2] From the time when parts of what is now Turkey were conquered by the Seljuq dynasty, the history of Turkey spans the medieval history of the Seljuk Empire, the medieval to modern history of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Republic of Turkey since the 1920s.[1][2]
^ ab"About this Collection – Country Studies". loc.gov. Archived from the original on 12 August 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
^ abDouglas Arthur Howard (2001). The History of Turkey. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30708-9. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
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