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Ankara

Ankara is the caipital o Turkey an the kintras's seicont mucklest city efter Istanbul. The city haes a mean elevation o 938 meters abuin sea level, wi varyin elevations frae 900 meters tae 1,300 meters abuin sea level.[3] As o 2008 the city haed 4,500,000 fowk. Ankara forby is the caipital o Ankara Province.

Ankara
City
Ankara Views.jpg
Ankara is located in Turkey
Ankara
Ankara
Location o Ankara
Coordinates: 39°52′N 32°52′E / 39.867°N 32.867°E / 39.867; 32.867
KintraTurkey
RegionCentral Anatolie
ProvinceAnkara
Govrenment
 • MayorMansur Yavaş [1] (CHP)
 • GovrenorVasip Şahin
Area
 • City2516 km2 (971 sq mi)
Elevation
938 m (3,077 ft)
Population
 (2010)[2]
 • Density1551/km2 (4,020/sq mi)
 • Metro
4,431,719
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
06xxx
Area code(s)312
Licence plate06
Websitehttp://www.ankara.bel.tr/
http://www.ankara.gov.tr/

As wi mony auncient cities, Ankara haes gane bi several names ower the ages. It haes been identified wi the Hittite cult center Ankuwaš,[4][5] awtho this is a matter o debate.[6] In classical antiquity an durin the medieval period, the city wis kent as Ánkyra (Ἄγκυρα, "anchor") in Greek an Ancyra in Latin; the Galatian Celtic name wis mebbe a seemilar variant. Follaein its annexation bi the Seljuk Turks in 1073, the city became kent in mony European leids as Angora, a uisage which continued till its offeecial renamin tae Ankara unner the Turkish Postal Service Law o 1930.[7]

Centrally locatit in Anatolie, Ankara is an important commercial an industrial city. It is the centre o the Turkish Govrenment, an hooses aw foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads o tred, strategically locatit at the centre o Turkey's heichway an railwey netwirks, an serves as the mercatin centre for the surroondin agricultural area. The city wis famous for its lang-haired Angora goat an its prized wool (mohair), a unique breed o cat (Angora cat), white rabbits an thair prized wool (Angora wool), peirs, honey, an the region's muscat grapes.

The historical centre o Ankara is situatit upon a rocky hill, which rises 150 m (492 ft) abuin the plain on the left bank o the Ankara Çayı, a tributary o the Sakarya (Sangarius) river. The city is locatit at 39°52'30" North, 32°52' East (39°52′30″N 32°50′00″E / 39.875°N 32.8333°E / 39.875; 32.8333Coordinates: 39°52′30″N 32°50′00″E / 39.875°N 32.8333°E / 39.875; 32.8333), aboot 351 km (218 mi) tae the sootheast o Istanbul, the kintra's mucklest city. Awtho situatit in ane o the driest places o Turkey an surroondit maistly bi steppe vegetation except for the forestit areas on the soothren periphery, Ankara can be considered a green city in terms o green areas per inhabitant, that is 72 m2 per heid.[8]

Ankara is a verra auld city wi various Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, an Ottoman archaeological sites. The hill which owerleuks the city is crouned bi the ruins o the auld castle, which adds tae the picturesqueness o the view, but anly a few historic structures surroondin the auld citadel hae survived tae the present day. Thare are, housomeivver, mony finely preserved remains o Hellenistic, Roman an Byzantine architecture, the maist remarkable bein the Temple o Augustus an Roum (20 BC) which is cried the Monumentum Ancyranum an aa.[9]

Internaitional relationsEedit

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister cities in Turkey

Twin touns — sister citiesEedit

Ankara is twinned wi:[10] o Ankara are leetit belaw:

Africae
Americas
Asie
  
Europe

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NotesEedit

  1. ↑ Mayor Mansur Yavaş
  2. ↑ [1] Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine Address-based population report 2010.
  3. ↑ Ankara, Turkey: Latitude, Longitude and Altitude
  4. ↑ "Judy Turman: Early Christianity in Turkey". Socialscience.tjc.edu. Archived frae the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 29 Juin 2010.
  5. ↑ "Saffet Emre Tonguç: Ankara (Hürriyet Seyahat)". Hurriyet.com.tr. Retrieved 29 Juin 2010.
  6. ↑ Gorny, Ronald L. "Zippalanda and Ankuwa: The Geography of Central Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C." The Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 117 (1997).
  7. ↑ Tore Kjeilen (3 September 2004). "Ankara". I-cias.com. Archived frae the original on 13 Januar 2009. Retrieved 5 Mey 2009.
  8. ↑ "Municipality of Ankara: Green areas per head". Ankara.bel.tr. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2011. Retrieved 29 Juin 2010.
  9. ↑ "LacusCurtius • Monumentum Ancyranum". Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 5 Mey 2009.
  10. ↑ "Ankara Metropolitan Municipality: Sister Cities of Ankara". © 2007 Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi - Tüm Hakları Saklıdır. Kullanım Koşulları & Gizlilik. Archived frae the original on 14 Januar 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
  11. ↑ "Sister Cities". Beijing Municipal Government. Archived frae the original on 17 Januar 2010. Retrieved 23 Juin 2009.
  12. ↑ daenet d.o.o. "Sarajevo Official Web Site : Sister cities". Sarajevo.ba. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 6 Mey 2009.
  13. ↑ "Tbilisi Municipal Portal - Sister Cities". © 2009 - Tbilisi City Hall. Archived frae the original on 24 Julie 2013. Retrieved 16 Juin 2009.
  14. ↑ "Twinning Cities: International Relations" (PDF). Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 23 Juin 2009.

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