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    pollen and charcoal.: 214  From 10000 BC onwards oak increased in Central Anatolia, but after 4000 BC they were almost all cut down, such as for fuel and...
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    principles, especially national self-determination, in post-World War I Anatolia and Eastern Thrace. The revolution concluded the collapse of the Ottoman...
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    was the systematic killing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia which was carried out mainly during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1922)...
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    movements massacred the Pontians and deported them to the interior regions of Anatolia. This resulted in approximately 350,000 deaths–about half of Pontic pre-genocide...
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    Göbekli Tepe (category Archaeological sites in Southeastern Anatolia)
    or Xirabreşkê) is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least...
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    clasts of carbonate rock in the Palaeocene alluvial fan deposits of central Anatolia. Beekite on Mindat.org Henry William Bristow (1861). Glossary of Mineralogy...
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    species. The Greek word refers to the ancient region of Lycia (Λυκία) in Anatolia, where that plant grew. The common English name, wolfberry, has an unknown...
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    after a heavy frost. Kale originated in the eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia, where it was cultivated for food beginning by 2000 BCE at the latest....
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  • archaeology, Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) refers to the study of micro-remains trapped in or adhered to artifacts from the past. These organic residues...
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    Gordion (category Archaeological sites in Central Anatolia)
    example in Anatolia. Around the same time, c. 850 BCE, Tumulus W was constructed, the first known example of a tumulus burial in Anatolia and a marker...
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    Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substances through the action of enzymes. In biochemistry, it is broadly...
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  • power vacuum in Anatolia, the Allies persuaded Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos to launch an expeditionary force into Anatolia and occupy Smyrna...
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    south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine...
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    10000 BC – earliest neolithic sanctuaries at Göbekli Tepe in southern Anatolia 9300 BC – first cultivating of wild emmer wheat in Netiv HaGdud and other...
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    Pontic Greeks (category Ancient peoples of Anatolia)
    ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (in Turkey). Many later migrated in various waves between the Ottoman conquest...
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    The earliest known cast lead beads were found in the Çatalhöyük site in Anatolia (Turkey), and dated from about 6500 BC, but the metal may have been known...
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    Antioch of Pisidia (category Seleucid colonies in Anatolia)
    region because of its strategic position. Even the Persians, who conquered Anatolia in the 6th century BC and attempted to rule the area by dividing it into...
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    below). The word is derived from the Koinē Greek city name, Pergamum in Anatolia, where parchment was supposedly first developed around the second century...
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    in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran, which had more continuous settlement. Eurasian tells date to...
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    Abbasid Caliphate (category States in medieval Anatolia)
    minimal while the Byzantine Empire was fighting Abbasid rule in Syria and Anatolia, with focus shifting primarily to internal matters; Abbasid governors exerted...
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  • Hexachlorobenzene (category Persistent organic pollutants under the Stockholm Convention)
    Persistent Organic Pollutants. Hexachlorobenzene is a stable, white, crystalline chlorinated hydrocarbon. It is sparingly soluble in organic solvents such...
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    that formed the northern margins of the Tethys Ocean. However, because Anatolia, the southern boundary of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, is a part of the original...
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    tariffs and farm subsidies, leading to alternative approaches such as the organic movement. Unsustainable farming practices in North America led to the Dust...
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    Law (29 May 1915), eventually a large proportion of Armenians living in Anatolia perished in what has become known as the Armenian genocide. The genocide...
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    (2nd–1st centuries BC) Remains of the Scylla monument at Bargylia, south west Anatolia, Turkey, (200–150 BC) Bronze head and hand of the statue of Aphrodite of...
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    Province. In the 1828–1829 Russo-Turkish War, Russia invaded northeastern Anatolia and occupied the strategic Ottoman towns of Erzurum and Gümüşhane and,...
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    Erdal, Y. S. (2006). "A pre-Columbian case of congenital syphilis from Anatolia (Nicaea, 13th century AD)". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology,...
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    Lead mining occurred in Central Europe, Britain, the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia, and Hispania, the latter accounting for 40% of world production. Lead...
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    (2010). "Morchella anatolica (Ascomycota), a new species from southwestern Anatolia, Turkey". Mycologia. 102 (2): 455–468. doi:10.3852/09-186. PMID 20361512...
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    Depas Amphikypellon (category Early Ceramics in Anatolia)
    DEPAS AMPHIKYPELLON FROM KÜLLÜOBA IN WESTERN CENTRAL ANATOLIA THROUGH GC-MS ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC RESIDUES". Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry...
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