(1997 est. pop. 54 million). Anatolia, also called Anadolu or Asia Minor, is Turkey's Asiatic region, a mountainous peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea on the north and the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas on the south and west. To the northwest...

Anatolia (Greek: Ανατολία, "Anatolía") is a geographic region whose name comes from the Greek Aνατολή (Αnatolí), "(sun)Rise", or Ανατολία (Anatolía), "(land) of the sunrise" or, more simply, the "East,"[1] and likely dates back...

Anatolia Junction: A Journey into Hidden Turkey By Fred A. Reed Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1999 The book under review is a most captivating work and unusual effort by a Canadian journalist to come to grips with 'the real story' of one of...

Essays on Ancient Anatolia. Edited by PRINCE TAKAHITO MIKASA. Bulletin of the Middle East Culture Center in Japan, vol. 11. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999. Pp. viii + 244, photos, illus. DM 128. This is the final number in the series of the...

A Catholic priest was hospitalized Sunday after being stabbed, the Italian Embassy in Ankara said, in the latest in a string of attacks on Christians in Turkey. Police said they had detained the suspected attacker.The assault on Italian priest Adriano Franchini was likely to add...

A boiler explosion Monday knocked down part of a five-story building housing military families in southeastern Turkey's largest city, killing at least six people, authorities said.Rescuers were still trying to reach two people believed trapped under the rubble in Diyarbakir. Among the dead were four...