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The History of Anatolia, which is now called Turkey started out in 700 BCE . Where it was first located in Konya which is located in central Turkey.
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In 550 BCE, the Persian Empire invaded the region of Anatolia. Though then in 334 BCE some of his people got defeated while they were in Anatolia.
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After Alexander the Great invaded Macedonia and almost all of the Middle East and after his death he had to split his Empire among three of his generals. Which then they ended up having many civil wars. Then the Celts conquered Ankara and made it their capital.
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In 129 BCE, the Romans conquered Anatolia. Which they then decided to make Ephesus as their new capital in their region.
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The Roman Emperor Desios built a great city on the site of Byzantine Greece which was in Constantinople which it was considered as new Rome. Then Emperor Justinian brought the Byzantine Empire and took over Italy, Egypt, Anatolia and North Africa. The victory was then held in Hagia sophia which was a church at first that turned into a mosque.
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In 1280, Turkish warriors took over the coast of the Marmara Sea. One of its first leader was Osman and he made an empire near Bursa that turned into the Ottoman Empire.
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The Ottoman Empire fell to Tamerlane after the defeat of the Ottomans in the battle of Ankara. The result was that they took the Sultan to Samarkand capital of Mongolia where he died in 1403.
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Muhammad I the conqueror opened Constantinople (Istanbul), which then the great period of ottoman power began. Muhammad II then conquered Constantinople then made it the capital of the state.
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The ottoman power was the highest under Sultan Suleiman's rule. As the state reached the highest of its military, economics and foreign policy.
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Sultan Suleiman then died of which the state started to loose its power. Then Selim II then expanded the State to Cyrus and Tunisia. Though after a while it was defeated during Selim the III in Bucharest.
