The Second Balkan War was a conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 / 29 (N.S.) June 1913.Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked, entering Bulgaria. With Bulgaria also having previously engaged in territorial disputes …

The Turkish people, or simply the Turks (Turkish: Türkler), are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.Article 66 of the Turkish Constitution defines a "Turk" …

Hadise Açıkgöz (born 22 October 1985) is a Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter, dancer, and television personality. Born and raised in Belgium, her family is of Lezgin-Kumyk origin who settled in Sivas, Turkey.In 2003, she participated in the Belgian singing competition show Idool 2003, but rose to fame after releasing her debut album Sweat in 2005. The album spawned 5 …

The Balkans (/ ˈ b ɔː l k ən z / BAWL-kənz), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria.The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian …

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until 1934 (c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey …

Besides Macedonian and Albanian, minority languages with substantial numbers of speakers are Turkish (including Balkan Gagauz), Romani, Serbian/Bosnian and Aromanian (including Megleno-Romanian). Macedonian Sign Language is the primary language of those of the deaf community who did not pick up an oral language in childhood. According to the ...

Turkey officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the …

Pristina is the official capital. Prizren is the historic capital of Kosovo.; Two currencies are used in Kosovo - the Euro is unilaterally approved even though Kosovo is not a formal member of the eurozone, and the Serbian Dinar is used mainly in Serb-majority areas.; XK is a "user assigned" ISO 3166 code not designated by the standard, but used by the European Commission, …

Sarıç Burnu Muharebesi veya Balıklava Muharebesi, I. Dünya Savaşı esnasında Sarıç Burnu açıklarında gerçekleşen bir deniz muharebesidir. 15 Kasım 1914'te denize açılan Rus Karadeniz Filosu, 17 Kasım'da Trabzon'u bombalamıştı. Rus saldırısının ardından Amiral Souchon komutasındaki Osmanlı muharebe kruvazörü Yavuz Sultan Selim ve hafif kruvazör Midilli …

het Turks (Türkçe) of Anatolisch Turks is een van de Turkse talen en de officiële taal van Turkije.Het Turks is ook een van de officiële talen van Cyprus en enkele gemeenten van Noord-Macedonië.Buiten Turkije wordt de taal gesproken door Turkse minderheden in landen in de Balkan, de Kaukasus en de Arabische wereld zoals Irak, Griekenland, Bulgarije, Kosovo, …

The Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the …

Identity. The modern Balkars identify as a Turkic people, who share their language with the Karachays from Karachay-Cherkessia and have strong lingual similarities with Kumyks from Dagestan.. Sometimes Balkars and Karachays are referred to as to a single ethnicity. History. The ethnogenesis of the Balkars resulted, in part, from an invasion of Alania during the 11th …

Several definitions of Eastern Europe exist in the early 21st century, but they often lack precision and may be anachronistic. These definitions are debated across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. It has also been described as a "fuzzy" term, as the idea itself of …

Edirne (US: / eɪ ˈ d ɪər n ə, ɛ ˈ-/, Turkish: ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace.Situated 7 km (4.3 mi) from the Greek and 20 km (12 mi) from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1369 to 1453, before ...