TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF TURKEY

by Richard Stoneman (second edition - 1996)

A Traveller's History of Turkey offers a portrait of the region from prehistory to 1996. Particular emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left their mark in the sites and monuments that are still visible today. Richard Stoneman's concise and readable account covers everything including the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilization of Catal Hujuk seven thousand years before Christ, the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Selcuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans to the 20th century's changes wrought by Kemal Ataturk.

Interlink Books (1996)