HISTORY
CAPITAL
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Nicodemia
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Constantinople
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Ankara
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Adrianople
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Detailed explanation-1: -Constantinople stood as the seat of the Byzantine Empire for the next 1, 100 years, enduring periods of great fortune and horrific sieges, until being overrun by Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
Detailed explanation-2: -ANKARA: From Antiquity to Modernity As a result of being chosen as the base during the War of Liberation by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the city was declared the capital of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Detailed explanation-3: -Capital city and metropolitan municipality. Clockwise from top: Söğütözü business district; Anıtkabir; Presidential Library; Kocatepe Mosque; and Atakule Tower. Emblem of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. Nickname(s): Heart of Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ankara was Atatürk’s headquarters from 1920 and has been the capital of the Republic of Turkey since its founding in 1923, replacing Istanbul following the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Detailed explanation-5: -The modern Ankara, also known in the West as Angora, remains a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Galatia in Asia Minor, suffragan of Laodicea.