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Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor), turkey tours comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions in the world due to its location at the intersection of Asia and Europe. The earliest Neolithic settlements such as Çatalhöyük, Hacilar, Göbekli Tepe and Mersin are considered one of the earliest human settlements in the world. The settlement of Troy starts in the Neolithic and continues into the Iron Age. Throughout history, Indo-Semitic and other languages of uncertain affiliation have spoken in Anatolia. In fact, given the antiquity of the Indo-Hittite and Luwian languages, some scholars have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical center from which the Indo-European languages have radiated.

The first major empire turkey tour in the area is that of the Hittites, between the XVII and XII a. C. Subsequently, the Phrygians, an Indo-European people, managed to establish a kingdom that was later destroyed by the Cimmerians in the seventh century C. The most powerful successor of the Phrygians were the states of Lydia, Caria and Lycia. The Lydians and Lycians spoke languages that were fundamentally Indo-European, but both languages had acquired Hittite and Hellenic elements.
Around 1200 BC C., the west coast of Anatolia was settled by the Greeks. The entire area was conquered by the Persian empire during the VI and V centuries BC and later by Alexander the Great in 334 BC C. Anatolia was subsequently divided into a number of small Hellenistic kingdoms (including Bithynia, Cappadocia, turkey tours Pergamum, and Pontus), all of whom had succumbed to Rome in mid-first century C. In 324 the Roman emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium as the site of the new capital of the Roman Empire, which was renamed New Rome (later Constantinople and Istanbul). After the fall of the Roman Empire, became the capital of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).