the last task of our English blog
11 years ago
14/09/2010
Turkey
This eurasian country, ancient bridge between the two first known worlds, Europe and Asia, was many years ago (in the Neolothic an the Iron Age) home to hattians, hittites, assyrians, and a lot of other peoples, cradle of civilizations. Place of meetings and disagreements, love and rage, peace and war, was chosen by greeks tribes to stablish their colonies, that even today we remember from hearsey: Mileto, Éfeso, Esmirna y Bizancio, the last one, actual Istanbul, the largest city of Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti). Trophy of Persian, didnt take along for Alexander the Great made it his, and then the same with Republican and Imperial Rome in days of glory and misery.
In 324 AC, emperor Constantine decided to transfer capital of the Empire to Bizancio, two thousand years too known as the Pearl of Orient, that became the bastion of half of the empire that withstood a thousand years older than her Western sister, less lucky, before it felt, in 476 and 1453 respectively.
Later, after Seljuk Sultanate occupied much of Turkey, the Ottoman Empire completed their conquest of Byzantine Empire capturing Bizancio in 1453 AC, shrank only after five centuries of splendor.
Republic was established with invasion of alies of triple entent in 1922, finishing First Wold War, and today is a parliamentary representative democracy, that belongs to the European Union, with a strong tradition of pluralism and secularism, but too maintaining its beautiful and ancient traditions.
In 324 AC, emperor Constantine decided to transfer capital of the Empire to Bizancio, two thousand years too known as the Pearl of Orient, that became the bastion of half of the empire that withstood a thousand years older than her Western sister, less lucky, before it felt, in 476 and 1453 respectively.
Later, after Seljuk Sultanate occupied much of Turkey, the Ottoman Empire completed their conquest of Byzantine Empire capturing Bizancio in 1453 AC, shrank only after five centuries of splendor.
Republic was established with invasion of alies of triple entent in 1922, finishing First Wold War, and today is a parliamentary representative democracy, that belongs to the European Union, with a strong tradition of pluralism and secularism, but too maintaining its beautiful and ancient traditions.
Well, Turkey doesnt offer us a unique past, cause traditions and modernity give form to a magical and no less realistic exciting world of contrasts, similarities and creations.
For example, music. There are a very powerful group of young turkish, as the band Kolpa, or artists as Teoman, Yusuf Güney, Gokhan Tepe, and specially Tarkan!
Tarkan is one of the most controversial figures of Turkey, with his captivating way of dance, his strong and unlimited personality, and a thrilling and atavistic voice.
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