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Online casino play may not exactly mean physical traveling. But think of online casino play as an exercise in imaginative travel. You can travel to wherever in the world you want without ever leaving your own home or your own desk. It's all up to you here.
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Turkey was historically a part of the Asia Minor region, known in the old world as the Anatolian Peninsula. As such, it housed some of the oldest civilizations of the world of the pre-Neolithic and the Neolithic eras. Troy, the center of the Iliad, was included in the area where Turkey is today. This speaks of a great amount of old world charm in Turkey, wherever you visit.
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It was in the 334 BCE that Alexander the Great conquered the area of Turkey and divided it into small kingdoms. However, these kingdoms did not remain Hellenistic for a long period of time. About 300 years afterward, the Romans conquered them, and from then on began a golden rule for Turkey. Byzantium was made the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine I, which later came to be known as Constantinople.
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After a much eventful history, it was in the 15th Century AD that the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople and made it their own. Constantinople was renamed as Istanbul. Incidentally, this single event affected the world trade (of Europe with Asia and Africa) that was being carried on through Constantinople, forcing merchants to seek new trade routes.
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Most of the modern history of Turkey is shaped by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who is also the founder and the first President of the Republic of Turkey. After the victory of the Turkish War of Independence on September 18, 1922, under his leadership, the Republic of Turkey was formed and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first President. Ankara was made the capital of this new republic.
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Today, Turkey is a bustling country for tourism where you can visit supreme old world religious structures like the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul or the Blue Mosque, you can visit museums like the Mosaic Museum, the Archeological Museum and the Turkish and Islamic Art Museum. Then there are Mediterranean beach resorts on Antalya, Dalyan and Bodrum and the Cappadocia Caves in interior Turkey.
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