Thursday, February 23, 2012
Detailed and latest road map of Turkey with distances and location names. Turkey has an extensive network of well maintained roads linking its towns, cities,and popular tourist areas.
The territory of Turkey is subdivided into 81 provinces for administrative purposes. Each province is divided into districts, for a total of 923 districts.
Turkey's terrain is structurally complex. A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.
Turkey's strategic location makes it a natural "energy bridge" between major oil producing areas in the Middle East and Caspian Sea regions
Turkey has a well-developed, state-owned railway system built to standard gauge which falls under the remit of the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
In the Roman period, the city was founded for the first time in A.D.195 by the Emperor Septimus Severus and called Nea Roma or Antoninia. Istanbul was rebuilt by the Emperor Constantinus I, The Great between the years of AD. 313-337 and named Constantinopolis after his name. Today, the city is called Istanbul.
Prepared by Justin McCarthy, Professor of History at the University of Louisville, the map is a powerful visual tool for both the historian and the casual viewer who seeks better to understand the cataclysm that effected so many millions, Muslim and Christian alike, during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.