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Ankara is Turkey's
capital and the second largest city after
Istanbul. Located in the center
of Anatolia on the eastern edge of the great, high Anatolian
Plateau, in the province of the same name, Ankara is a lovely
tourist destination. Besides its cultural and architectural
heritage, the city has a major European appearance than most of
the other cities in Turkey, with wide-open roads, large hotels,
restaurants and museums
Although during its history the city has not had much of
transcendence in the ancient periods, was not until the War of
the Independence, when KEMAL ATATURK declared to Ankara as the
capital of the new Republic of Turkey that Ankara got great
importance. Today Ankara is an important commercial and
industrial city and as center of the Turkish government, the
city plays and important role for the Turkish economy as an
important crossroad of trade.
As a tourism destination Ankara has many things to offer to
visitors. There are Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman,
Byzantine, and Ottoman archaeological sites like the Temple of
Augustus and Rome (20 BC) which is also known as the Monumentum
Ancyranum, that show the periods that the city has passed during
the time. There are also beautiful museums displaying its
cultural heritage and the life style of locals.
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