..Our history is the history of Anatolia. We were pagan once, then we became christians and muslims afterwards. It is this people that once created the pagan temples, then the churches and then the mosques. It was us that once filled the snow white theaters...
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu - 1961
Thales Theorem, attributed to ancient western Turkish mathematician Thales.According to Bertrand Russell, "Western philosophy begins with Thales."
Herodotus was an ancient Turkish historian who was born in Caria, Halicarnassus (modern day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History" since he was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative
Baptism of Constantine, the Emperror of Roman Empire(Byzantine Empire) who moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Istanbul and gave it his name.