Turkey Timeline. By: Ross Rogers. The Trojan War fought between the armies of Troy and Achaea (Greece) for control of trade passing through the Dardanelles strait. 1250 BC. Cyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Anatolia. 547 BC. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Turkey Timeline
Turkey TimelineBy: Ross Rogers1250 BCThe Trojan War fought
between the armies of Troy and Achaea (Greece) for control of trade
passing through the Dardanelles strait.
547 BCCyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Anatolia.
334 BCAlexander the Great of Macedon marches through Anatolia on
his way to India.
279 BCCelts (or Gauls) invade and establish the kingdom of
Galatia near Ankara.
250 BCRise of the Kingdom of Pergamum (Bergama) as an Anatolian
power.
129 BCAnatolia becomes the Roman Province of Asia ('Asia
Minor'), with its capital at Ephesus.
47-57 ADST Paul travels to Christian and Jewish communities in
Anatolia.
1037-1109Turkish Empire of the Great Seljuks in Iran.
1000s-1200sCrusader armies cross Anatolia through the lands of
the Seljuk Sultan of Rum, with frequent battles.
1453Conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) by Sultan Mehmet II
the Conqueror.
1520-1566Reign of Sultan Sleyman the Magnificent, the great age
of the Ottoman Empire. The sultan rules most of North Africa, most
of Eastern Europe and all of the Middle East. His navies patrol the
Mediterranean and Red seas and the Indian Ocean.
1699Treaty of Karlowitz, the first time in over 400 years that
the Ottomans were decisively defeated and forced to sign a peace
treaty as the clear losers. The mighty empire was clearly in
decline.
1876-1909Reign of Sultan Abdlhamid II, a ruthless despot who was
the last of the powerful sultans. The European empires ask
themselves the 'Eastern Question': which European nations will grab
Ottoman territory when the sultan's empire collapses?
1914-1918The Ottoman Empire enters World War I in alliance with
Germany. Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops invade
invade Gallipoli which is successfully defended by Ottoman forces
led by Kemal. Eventual defeat of the Ottomans, loss of most of the
empire's territory, and occupation of parts of Anatolia by
victorious foreign troops.
1923-1938Atatrk's reforms, equal rights for women, secular
government, prohibition of the fez and the veil, substitution of
the Latin alphabet for the Arabic, Turkification of city names,
everyone adopts a surname.
1938Death of Ataturk, continuation of one part rule.
1939-1945Turkey maintains a precarious neutrality during World
War II.
1946-1950Institution of multi-party democracy.
