Have you ever known? by Eylül GÜMÜŞDAĞ https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt Interesting facts about Turkey en-us 2018-05-17 10:32:37 UTC 2023-03-03 18:55:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png The name of the country Turkey may come from Turchia, which is the word Italian observers used to refer to Anatolia—Turkey’s Asian portion—as early as the 12th century. The Turks didn’t use the name Türkiye (Land of the Turks) officially until the republic was established in 1923. eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521233 2018-05-17 10:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521233 Gazi Mustafa Kemal, a.k.a. Atatürk (Father of the Turks), was actually born in Greece. The founder of modern Turkey was born in 1881 in what was then the Ottoman city of Selanik, now Saloniki, in Greece. Though, his mother and his father’s ancestors were Turks from Anatolia. eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521331 2018-05-17 10:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521331 Turkey has the third highest number of Facebook users in the world, with 14 million users, after the U.S. and U.K. eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521446 2018-05-17 10:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521446 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521907 2018-05-17 10:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261521907 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522169 2018-05-17 10:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522169 Istanbul’s Kapalıçarşı, or Grand Bazaar, may be the world’s largest outdoor market, with 64 streets, 4,000 shops, and 25,000 workers. It also may be one of the oldest, having been built in the 15th century on the order of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522594 2018-05-17 10:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522594 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522917 2018-05-17 10:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261522917 The first Christian church to be built by man—the Cave Church, or Grotto, of St. Peter—was built between A.D. 1098 and 1268 in Antioch, Turkey eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523404 2018-05-17 10:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523404 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523572 2018-05-17 10:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523572 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523921 The oldest known human city is Çatalhöyük in Turkey, which shows signs of settlement from the 7th century B.C.]]> 2018-05-17 10:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261523921 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524196 2018-05-17 10:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524196 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524629 Turkey has 82,693 mosques, more than any other country per capita in the world.]]> 2018-05-17 10:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524629 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524802 2018-05-17 10:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261524802 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525212 Turkish Delight, or lokum, is one of the oldest sweets in world history, dating back 500 years. ]]> 2018-05-17 10:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525212 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525360 2018-05-17 10:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525360 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525533 The word “turquoise” comes from turc, meaning “Turkish,” and was derived from the beautiful color of the Mediterranean Sea on the southern Turkish coast]]> 2018-05-17 10:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261525533 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261526101 2018-05-17 10:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261526101 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261526886 Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi was the first man to fly a significant distance, using artificial wings to fly across the Bosporus Straits in the 17th century, thus making the world’s first intercontinental flight 270 years before the Wright Brothers.]]> 2018-05-17 11:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261526886 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527131 2018-05-17 11:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527131 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527424 Turks introduced coffee to Europe, during the Ottoman raids into Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th century.]]> 2018-05-17 11:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527424 eylulgumusdag1 https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527640 2018-05-17 11:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eylulgumusdag1/vpzqacp3sdxt/wish/261527640