This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

In Garni Gorge, a geological phenomenon known as the 'Symphony of Stones', or basalt columns, captivates visitors. But back ...

and eventually thanked those who built the foundations of Asia Minor and Anatolia by committing genocides against the Assyrians, Pontic Greeks, Western Greeks and Armenians, followed by decades of ...

Tulips are native to the Himalayas, and were brought to western Europe via Turkey ... Tulips might be associated with the Netherlands, but they are actually native to Anatolia, or modern-day Turkey.

Turkey ranks fourth in the world in installed geothermal capacity, and most of the licenses are in Western Anatolia. Turkey contains extensive geothermal capacity which has been exploited through ...