List of countries in the world. Facts and information

The English word turquoise comes from Turkey. And is associated with the color of the Mediterranean Sea.

Turkey is a country that consistently ranks among the world's top three leaders in gasoline prices.

The 4th point of the agreement was signed in December 1920 between the command of the Red Army and N. Makhno. As a result, the rebel army of Nestor Makhno was to be redeployed to Turkey as military assistance to the army of Mustafa Kemal in the war against England and Greece.

The Father of the Turks, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was born in Thessaloniki.

Legislative power in Turkey is vested in a unicameral Parliament consisting of 550 deputies. Parliament is elected every four years. The President of Turkey is elected by popular vote for a term of five years, with the possibility of re-election for another term.

Julius Caesar proclaimed his famous words Vini, Vidi. Vici in 47 BC after defeating the kingdom of Pontus in the country's Black Sea region.

Tour guides and tour guides are talking complete bullshit when they say that the country has two orange harvests a year. This is the same as a woman giving birth every 4 months.

There are over ten ski resorts in Turkey.

The oceanarium, opened in 2009 in Istanbul, is the largest in Europe.

Turkey did not participate in World War II, maintaining neutrality.

The Turks as a nation began to be called this way in 1923 after Ataturk proclaimed the Turkish Republic. Before that, they were called the Ottomans (or Ottomans or Ottoman Turks).

The burial site of King Antiochus I in Mount Nemrut National Park is considered the largest burial mound in the world. At about 59.8 meters high, it covers an area of ??3 hectares.

Spices used in Europe in the Middle Ages to preserve meat were practically imported from Turkey on a monopoly basis. This monopoly's extremely high cost motivated the rapid development of navigation and the beginning of the era of great geographical discoveries.

The village of Beycik, 15 km from Kemer, is Turkey's most ecologically clean place.

Homer described the bird Chimera in the Iliad as based on Mount Tahtali, where tourists are now taken in red wagons.

There are more than 100 types of minerals in the country.

Istanbul is the only city on two continents: Europe and Asia. Over the thousands of years of its history, it has been the capital of three great empires: the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman.

In 1963, Christianity identified a cave in the Antakya region, where many researchers believe the apostle Peter preached, as the first cathedral in the world.

Dervishes were taught to spin in dance using a very rigid method. A nail driven into the floor was clamped between the toes of the right supporting leg while the left one pushed in a circle. Additional nails were also driven in a circle between the central nail and the pushing circle. Any loss of balance resulted in the dancer stepping on nails.

According to some sources, Mark Antony gave Cleopatra lands on the southwestern coast of Turkey as a wedding gift.

According to the newspaper Hurriyet, Mikhail Prokhorov bought 184,000 square meters of coastline in Cesme in 2007 and wants to repeat Telman Ismailov's feat by building a seven-star hotel.

The House of the Virgin Mary, where she spent her last days, is located on top of a mountain in Ephesus.

The novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul in 1934. Room 411 of the hotel where Agatha Christie stayed is now her memorial museum.

The English name for Turkey - Turkey - has nothing to do with Turkey.

The death penalty was abolished in the country in 2001, although in reality, not a single person has been executed since 1984.

Coffee was initially brought from Yemen to Istanbul. And only then spread throughout Europe.

One of the options for passing the prime meridian at one time was the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

At the height of its power (17th century), the Ottoman Empire occupied the territory of today's Caucasian republics, southern Ukraine, and almost the entire Middle East, including the Islamic holy places of Mecca and Medina, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, and Morocco, as well as all of the Balkans, Hungary, and Slovakia.

The first jokes about Hodja Nasreddin, a figure deeply rooted in Turkish culture, were written down in Turkey in the 16th century by the writer and poet Cami Ruma Lamia. Nasreddin, a real person who lived in eastern Turkey from 1208 to 1284, continues to be a beloved and humorous part of Turkish folklore.

Military marches have 100% Turkish roots. The fashion for military orchestral music was born with the penetration of Janissary marches into Europe in the 18th century and was reflected in the works of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.