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The Hittites and the Trojan War fought between Troy (in Turkey) and Achaea (Greece)
King Midas and King Croesus
Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire and the sultans
The World Wars

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1900 BC

 

1900-1300 BC The Hittite Empire

1250 BC

 

The Trojan War fought between the armies of Troy (in Turkey) and Achaea (Greece)

1200

 

1200-600 BC Phrygian kingdom of Mithridates. King Midas and King Croesus are notable monarchs

547 BC

 

Cyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Anatolia (Turkey)

334 BC

 

Alexander the Great of Macedon marches through Anatolia on his way to India

129 BC

 

Anatolia becomes the Roman Province of Asia ('Asia Minor')

330 AD

 

Emperor Constantine the Great dedicates Constantinople as the 'New Rome

527

 

527-565 Reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian

 

 

1000s-1200s - Crusader armies cross Anatolia

1288

 

Foundation of the Ottoman Empire by the warrior Osman which eventually rules North Africa, most of Eastern Europe and all of the Middle East

1453

 

Conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) by Sultan Mehmet II 'the Conqueror'

1520

 

1520-1566 Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire with the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

1683

 

1683-1697 Austro-Ottoman war in which the Ottoman side was defeated signifying the decline of the Ottoman Empire

1682

 

1682-1725 Peter the Great initiates Russo-Turkish rivalry

1854

 

Crimean war - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia moved troops into Rumania, then part of the Ottoman Turkish empire. His fleet then destroyed a Turkish flotilla off Sinope in the Black Sea. The Russians were defeated by the British and French with the Ottomans

1909

 

Abdul Hamid, the last of the Ottoman sultans is deposed

1914

 

1914-1918 Turkey allies with Germany in the World War 1

1939

 

1939-1945 Turkey remains neutral during World War 2

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