republic of turkey
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1. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | country, land, state, |
| definition | : | the territory occupied by a nation (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | adrianople, adrianopolis, edirne, |
| definition | : | a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | kurdistan, |
| definition | : | an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | abydos, |
| definition | : | an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | adana, seyhan, |
| definition | : | a city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | adalia, antalya, |
| definition | : | a port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | antakiya, antakya, antioch, |
| definition | : | a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | halicarnassus, |
| definition | : | an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | constantinople, istanbul, stamboul, stambul, |
| definition | : | the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | brusa, bursa, |
| definition | : | a city in northwestern Turkey (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | izmir, smyrna, |
| definition | : | a port city in western Turkey (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | pergamum, |
| definition | : | an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | sardis, |
| definition | : | an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | aegospotami, aegospotamos, |
| definition | : | a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | ararat, mount ararat, mt. ararat, |
| definition | : | the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | aras, araxes, |
| definition | : | a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | bosporus, |
| definition | : | a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | euphrates, euphrates river, |
| definition | : | a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | seyhan, seyhan river, |
| definition | : | a Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | tigris, tigris river, |
| definition | : | an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | anatolia, asia minor, |
| definition | : | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | balkan peninsula, balkans, |
| definition | : | a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | middle east, mideast, near east, |
| definition | : | the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century (noun.location) |
| member holonym | : | turk, |
| definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Turkey (noun.person) |
| member meronym | : | nato, north atlantic treaty organization, |
| definition | : | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | dardanelles, dardanelles campaign, |
| definition | : | the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | aga, agha, |
| definition | : | title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey) (noun.communication) |
| domain member region | : | ibda-c, islamic great eastern raiders-front, |
| definition | : | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | jerusalem warriors, |
| definition | : | ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991 (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | turkish hizballah, |
| definition | : | an ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey; seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law; responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen; receives support from Iran (noun.group) |
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