Questions tagged [anatolia]
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Did any member of the Seljuk dynasty adopt an heir?
There are couple of articles about adoption of children in Ottoman empire, but I couldn't find anything about Seljuk empire. Adoption of children were common then. I would like to know if there is ...
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Percentage of Christians (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians) in Asia Minor/Anatolia in the early 19th century
I'm wondering about the percentage of Christians in Asia Minor/Anatolia in the early 19th century. There were significant Muslim immigration and Christian emigration later.
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Did the Seljuk consider themselves Roman?
I recently learned that the Seljuk state in Anatolia was officially called Sultanate of Rûm, where Rûm means Rome. Does that mean that Seljuks considered themselves to be cultural heirs of Rome?
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What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC.
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Are there any records of Turks settling in Anatolia before the 11th century?
I know the mass Turkic Migration into the Middle East occurred during the 10th-11th centuries but are there any records of Turks settling in Anatolia before the Seljuq invasion?
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What is the difference between Anatolia and Asia Minor?
Is there a strict geographical definition on those names from a historian's point of view? Are there differences between the geographic definition e.g. is upper Mesopotamia included/excluded? I have ...
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