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The Franco-Ottoman alliance or Franco-Turkish alliance was established in 1536 between Francis I, King of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was one of the longest-lasting and most important foreign alliances of France, and was particularly influential during the Italian Wars. The Franco-Ottoman military alliance reached its peak with the ...
The lira (Turkish: Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; [1] abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey. It is also legal tender in the de facto state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. One lira is divided into one hundred kuruş. The First Turkish lira could be further subdivided, where one kuruş was equal to 40 para. [2] The current lira is the Second Turkish lira ...
Gaston IV (c. 1060 – died 1131) was viscount of Béarn from 1090 to 1131. He was called le Croisé–– the Crusader––because of his participation in the First Crusade as part of the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles.
Turkish Airlines (Turkish: Türk Hava Yolları), or legally Türk Hava Yolları Anonim Ortaklığı, [7] is the flag carrier of Turkey. [8] As of June 2024, it operates scheduled services to 352 destinations (including cargo) in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. [9] The airline serves more destinations non-stop from a single airport than any other airline in the world [10] and ...
Vlad III (1428/31 – 1476/77), commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula (/ ˈdrækjʊlə, - jə -/ DRAK-yuu-lə, -yə-; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He is regarded as a Christian hero in Romania due to his opposition to the Ottoman Empire and ...
The Seljuk Empire (/ˈsɛld͡ʒuːk/ SEL-jook in BrE, /sɛlˈd͡ʒuːk/ sel-JOOK in AmE), or the Great Seljuk Empire, [14][a] was a high medieval Turkic, [17] culturally Persianate [18] empire established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. [19] The empire spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to ...
Armenia, [c] officially the Republic of Armenia, [d] is a landlocked country in the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [3][9][e] It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. [11] Yerevan is the capital, largest city and financial center.
The statutory seat of TCI is in Brussels, while its seat of management is in Cyprus. In December 2025, it was announced that Titan Cement Group had entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Traçim Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., a cement manufacturer based near Istanbul, Türkiye, for approximately US$190 million.