Anatolia, Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey. Because of its location at the point where the continents of Asia and Europe meet, Anatolia was, from the beginnings of civilization, a crossroads for numerous peoples migrating or conquering from either continent. This article discusses the history and …

Mar 31, 2021 · Most of Turkey’s population of roughly 85 million lives in Anatolia. The Anatolian part of Turkey is bordered to the northeast by Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, to the east by Iran, to the south by Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea, to the north by the Black Sea, and to the west by the Aegean Sea and Greece. Turkey’s capital, Ankara ...

The geology of Turkey is the product of a wide variety of tectonic processes that have shaped Anatolia ... N., Inceöz, M., Ertepinar, P. and Koç, A. 2010. Late Cretaceous to recent kinematics of SE Anatolia (Turkey) In Sosson, M. Kaymakci, N., Stephenson, R., Starostenko, V. and Bergerat, F. (Eds.) Sedimentary basin tectonics from the Black ...