plateau

Turkey’s capital is Ankara, a modern city that really grew up and outwards after Ataturk chose it as the country’s capital. In geographic terms, it is located on the central Anatolian plateau and is about equally distant from all parts of Turkey. Its crowning glory is Ataturk’s mausoleum, where...

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