Turkey(country)
A republic spanning the Anatolian peninsula and East Thrace, founded in 1923 after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. In 2022 it changed the official name it uses internationally to Türkiye.
Calling the turkey a 'turkey' is a geographic mix-up. Europeans confused the American bird with guinea fowl imported via Turkey. Yet in Turkish it is 'hindi' — 'India' — and in parts of India it is 'Peru.' Each language blames a different wrong homeland.
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Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, built around 12,000 years ago, features T-shaped stone pillars weighing 10–20 tons each. It predates agriculture, suggesting humans first gathered not for food but for religious reasons.
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