The capital city of Turkey, located in central Anatolia, known for its political importance and historical significance.
From ancient Greek 'Ankyra' meaning 'anchor', referring to the city's position as a crossroads. The name evolved through Byzantine Greek and Turkish, officially becoming Ankara in 1930 when it replaced Istanbul as Turkey's capital.
Ankara's name literally means 'anchor' in ancient Greek, reflecting its role as a stable stopping point on ancient trade routes. When Atatürk made it Turkey's capital in 1923, he chose this inland anchor over cosmopolitan Istanbul, symbolically grounding the new republic away from its imperial Ottoman past.
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