Sentences with phrase «anatolian peninsula»

And the big debate among linguistic archeologists has been whether to place the root of the proto Indo - European tree in the Anatolian peninsula (roughly where Turkey is now) or on the steppes near the Caspian Sea.

But not related to Kannada, Finnish, Georgian, or — incongruously, since it now dominates the Anatolian peninsula — Turkish.

Turkey known officially as the Republic of Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of south - eastern Europe.

The Anatolian peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest permanently settled regions in the world.

, Asia originally referred to the Anatolian peninsula.

That's indeed quite confusing, since Anatolian peninsula, where the most of modern Turkey is located, for an ages was and still is widely known under the name of Lesser Asia or Minor Asia (gr.