Scientists and researchers agree that the word Turkey comes from Italian. Professor Dr. İlber Ortaylı has wrote an article and says that the Genoese and Venetian merchants and diplomats, in the 12th century, Turkey and specifies what they describe as Turchia or Turmeni. Moreover, Turkey is a name for the first time in written sources in 1190, it passes crusade chronicles experimental stages.
Professor Dr. Abdulhaluk Çay takes the Turchia definition farther back and says Turchia was first encountered in the Byzantine sources in the 6th century and says, "This phrase was used for the field from the Idil / Volga river to Central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries." This is my servant Caucasus region in Eastern Turkey to the Caspian Khanate, that for Hungarian Arpad dynasty established by the State in the form of western Turkey and indicates that the same term is used to Anatolia from the 12th century. In the past, 13-14. century Mamluk Egypt, Turkey had also uses the name: ed-devletüt Türkiya (1250-1387). West's, Turchia the Turkish people never cuddly, Turkey (Anglais), they said.
In the Ottoman Empire, Turkey name was not used until the 19th century, the state of Osmaniye, Memali the sumptuous, Land of Greek names were used. Later on, although the names of Turkestan, Turkic, and Turkic were suggested instead of Osmaniye among the young Ottomans, this was not adopted because there was a state called Turkistan in Central Asia. The Constitution (1921), written name and Turkey was accepted as the official name in 1923 in Turkey.
read more about the Republic of Turkey:
- General Informations
- The first Turks in the Area - part I
- The founding of a new Nation
- The political connections with the world nations