Since the beginning of recorded history, Anatolia, has been well known as one the earliest settlements of man and has continued to flourish with the migration of various tribes, and accumulated a large cultural heritage through a line of succeeding empires and civilizations, from the Sumerians to the Hittites, the Lydians to the Byzantines and the Seljuks to the Ottomans; all once thrived and faded within the borders of Turkey. From the ruins of the empires in Istanbul, to the battlefields of Gallipoli, the ancient ruins of Ephesus and the fairy-tale chimneys of Cappadocia, history lovers have a wide range of choices in this amazing country
