Map of Turkey
Open Turkey on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Ankara |
|---|---|
| Area | 783,562 km² |
| Currency | TRY (Turkish lira) |
| Languages | Turkish |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Turkey existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Turkey. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
Battle of Sarikamish — the Ottoman Third Army is destroyed by the winter
World War I · IntMap’s war record
22 December → - 1915
The defence of Van — the Armenian quarter holds out for a month until the Russians arrive
World War I · IntMap’s war record
19 April → - 1915
Red Sunday — the Armenian community leaders of Constantinople are arrested and deported, and the genocide begins
World War I · IntMap’s war record
24 April → - 1915
- 1915
Battle of Manzikert — the Ottoman counter-attack that takes Van back for the summer
World War I · IntMap’s war record
10 July → - 1915
The Suvla landings — the last attempt to break out of the Gallipoli beachheads
World War I · IntMap’s war record
6 August → - 1915
Lone Pine — four days of hand-to-hand fighting in covered trenches, and seven Victoria Crosses
World War I · IntMap’s war record
6 August → - 1916
Battle of Köprüköy — the Russians break the fortified belt covering Erzurum
World War I · IntMap’s war record
10 January → - 1916
Erzurum offensive — the fortress of the Ottoman east falls to the Russians
World War I · IntMap’s war record
16 February → - 1916
Trebizond is taken — the Russians hold the Black Sea coast
World War I · IntMap’s war record
18 April → - 1918
Battle of Imbros — the Goeben and Breslau come out of the Dardanelles at last and run onto a minefield
World War I · IntMap’s war record
20 January → - 1918
Trebizond is retaken — the Ottoman army walks back into the Black Sea coast the Russians have left
World War I · IntMap’s war record
24 February → - 1918
Open data about Turkey
The datasets IntMap may share about Turkey, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/TUR.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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