Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires--Persia,
Rome, Byzantium--before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire. All these
civilizations have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of
Turkey--a place of fascinating overlapping cultures.A Traveller's History of
Turkey offers a concise and readable account of the region from prehistory right
up to the present day. It covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah,
the early civilization of Catal Huyuk seven thousand years before Christ,
through the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Seljuks,
Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans, to the twentieth century's great
changes wrought by Kemal