About Turkey http://www.guidetoturkey.com/aboutturkey/history/prehistory/introduction.a > CITIES & TOWNS Prehistory Select Introduction to Anatolia > SOCIAL LIFE Bronze Age ( 3000 - 1200 BC ) Education Folklore Chalcholithic Age ( Copper Age) ( 5500-3000 BC) Holidays Neolithic Age ( 8000 BC - 5000 BC ) The Evil Eye Nightlife > GEOGRAPHY Introduction to Anatolia Geography The history of Anatolia, the Turkish homeland is simply incredible. The world's Flora & Fauna oldest city was founded, here, at Catal Hoyuk in 7500 BC. The Hittite Empire, little Climate known in the west, rivaled that of ancient Egypt, and left behind captivating works Weather Population of art. The heartland of classical Hellenic culture is actually in Turkey, including Cities cities such as Troy, Pergamum, Ephesus, Miletus and Halicarnassus. Most Sites modern Turkish cities have a Roman past and all have a Byzantine one. The Regions Seljuk Turkish Empire could boast of people like Omar Khayyam and Celaleddin Distances Rumi, the poet, mystic and founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes. Turkey's > ART & CULTURE history is astoundingly long, extending for almost 10,000 years. The Prehistoric Arts Music Times Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) (2 Million - 8000 BC) Paleolithic Age, also Turkish Music known to be the old stone age, begins somewhere between 2 million years ago Mehter and ends 10.000 years before our time. This time period marks the beginning of > COMMUNICATION the existence of the ancestors of man. The early man in the Paleolithic age did Communication in not know to farm and raise crops, but lived on picking up vegetables and fruit and Turkey on hunting. In search of the new food sources and to be able to hunt animals, he Emergency Numbers Local Area Codes moved from place to place and gathered in small groups. His dwelling was in International Country rocky areas, under big rocks and in caves. In areas where this condition could not Codes be met he made easy and primitive shelters out of wood. Around 40,000 BC he > ECONOMY started making simple stone tools for hunting and protection purposes. Between Economy in Turkey 40,000 and 10,000 is the glacial age on earth. Not being able to move much due Currency Exchange Rates of to the climate, the primitive man utilized the skin of the animals that he hunted with US-Dollar successfully carved stones. To make clothes he used pins made out of bones (1975-2001) and sewed animal skin covers for himself. During this hard time of survival, he Inflation in Turkey was able to discover and to control fire and by doing so he happened to have > TURKISH BATH passed an important step in his development which helped him be separated from Turkish Bath the animals. In this same period the earliest notion of the need to believe in an Cagaloglu Hamami > TIME & DATE other world or in a mightier power can also be traced. In the graves that were dug World Times Zone for the dead as simple holes he left food by the side of the deceased and this is > WINING & interpreted to be his faith in afterlife. To sum up, the hard conditions of life in the DINING glacial age led the early man develop better socially and technically. The passage Wining & Dining in from the very primitive man, namely Homo Neanderthal, to the ancestor of the Turkey modern man, namely Homo Sapiens is dated to between 10,000 and 8,000 may Turkish Cuisine Cookbook also be considered in this period. In the last phases of the Paleolithic age early Recipe of The Week man could make tools in order to make different new tools. The first works of art > SHOPPING emerged in this era too: paintings made on the cave walls and various art objects Shopping in Turkey such as low reliefs and figurines.The intellectual life of the man was beginning. Istanbul Moreover, animal bones, teeth and shells the ornate objects demonstrate the first Shopping in Istanbul Akmerkez aesthetic concern in man. The fact that in the Paleolithic Age, Asia Minor is Bazaar54 extremely rich in fossils and fragments of human beings and animals, of stone, of Capitol bone and of vegetation, as well as of works of art that reveals that the Anatolian Galerya land was intensely inhabited during this period. The most important place in Grand Bazaar Anatolia where all the three phases; Upper, Middle and Lower in the Paleolithic Lapis Age can be seen, is the Karain Cave 30 km northwest of Antalya. In this Sentez Spicemarket respectively large cave, there are various living sections from each of the three 1 of 3 16-Jan-04 17:15 About Turkey http://www.guidetoturkey.com/aboutturkey/history/prehistory/introduction.a Spicemarket pyg, g Ankara phases of the Paleolithic Age. Among the finds are many carved stone and bone Karum Ankara tools, moveable art objects, remains of the bones and teeth of Homo Neanderthal Bodrum and Homo Sapiens, burnt and unburned animal and bread fossils. Karain cave in Shopping in Bodrum the Paleolithic Age is not a crucial excavation site only for Anatolia but also for the Izmir Near East. One can see some of these remains in the Museums of Karain, in Shopping in Izmir Urfa Antalya and in Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Shopping in Urfa Kocaeli Izmit Outlet Tax Free Shopping > CONVENTIONS & EXHIBITION CENTERS Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Center > RELIGION Islam in Turkey Koran Hz. Muhammed Bismillah Ezan Ramadan Mevlana Mevlevi Sufism Christianity Churches in Istanbul Churches in Izmir Synagogues in Istanbul Synagogues in Izmir > GENERAL Orient Express Bridge Game Camel Wrestling Amazons Camping > SITES St. Sophia Chora Church Galata Tower Suleymaniye Mosque Topkapi Palace Chora Monastery > FAMOUS PERSONALITIES Ataturk Florence Nightingale Santa Claus Mimar Sinan > TOURISM OFFICE Tourism Offices > EMBASSIESS & VISA Embassies in Turkey Turkish Embassies Abroad Visa > HISTORY PREHISTORY Introduction Bronz age Chalcholithic Age Neolithic Age Prehistory Phrygians HITTITES Hittites BYZANTIUM 2 of 3 16-Jan-04 17:15 About Turkey http://www.guidetoturkey.com/aboutturkey/history/prehistory/introduction.a Byzantium A great Empire Aphrodisias Chora Monastery Hagia Sophia Land & People of Byzantine Byzantine means Istanbul Palaces & Aquaducts The Dark Ages ROMAN EMPIRE Romans SELCUKS Selcuks in Asia Minor OTTOMANS Ottomans Ahdnama REPUBLIC PERIOD Turkish Anthem Turkish Republic Hot Deals | Weather | Members | Who We Are | About Turkey Did You Know | Shopping | Restaurants | Contact Us | About Us | Home Copyright © 1999 - 2002 Guide to Turkey All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions webmasters | Send This Page To A Friend 3 of 3 16-Jan-04 17:15.