Turkey, exotic, colorful, many-faceted, romantic, ever- old and ever new, is the gateway and the key to the fabled East. It is in the context of its unique geographic location and its age long history that its religious sites continue to be significant.
Speaking in more concrete terms, turkey includes the large Peninsula of western Asia, called both Asia minor and Anatolia, and a part of Thrace in Europe.
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