ANKARA - The Capital City of Turkey

Вторник, 09 Августа 2011 г. 09:12 + в цитатник

Centrally located in Anatolia, Ankara is an important commercial and industrial city. It has been the neural center of the Turkish Government, and houses all foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkey's highway and rail network, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area.

Modern ANKARA is really two cities, a double identity that is due to the breakneck pace at which it has developed since being declared capital of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Until then Ankara had been a small provincial city, famous chiefly for the production of soft goat's wool. This city still exists, in and around the old citadel that was the site of the original settlement. The other Ankara is the modern metropolis that has grown up around a carefully planned attempt to create a seat of government worthy of a modern, Western-looking state.

Photo by Ismail K.

Photo by Fatih Sayar

Devrim Barış Acar

Ozan @ Flickr

Mevlut Tosun

Ünsal Yastık

MeReK

Reingman

Anatolia

Some General Views

Onur Dongel

Kizilay (Izmir Caddesi/Izmir Street)

Kizilay (Center)

New Year preparations inside Karum Shopping Mall..

Altin Park

"Best Park of Eastern Mediterrian Awarded"

ANITKABiR - Atatürk's Mauseleum

The Old City..

The Citadel with the old houses of Ankara..

The Citadel from back.. Unfortunately other side of citadel still holds bad looking non-historical old houses, but there are projects of clearing them.

Some historical buildings in Ulus (Historical District) built at the first years of republic.

The First Parliament of Republic of Turkey (It was a primary school actually, then converted into parliament in the independence war)