Sentence examples for anatolia it from inspiring English sources

Under the Seljuqs, Sivas reached its greatest prosperity, becoming one of the most important cities of Anatolia; it was said to have had more than 150,000 inhabitants when it was plundered by the Central Asian ruler Timur (Tamerlane) in 1400.

Surprisingly, although Thrace is the closest landscape to Anatolia, it does not contain any sites of the earliest phase of the Neolithic at all beyond the narrow zone of the northern Marmara.

Finally, as shown in Figure 1, one lineage, I-M26, is very common in Sardinia and absent in Anatolia (it is also detected in some Western European populations, albeit rarer than in Sardinia).

The second post-autobiographical film is Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – or it would be if its lead were not so evidently steeped in Ceylan's melancholic sensibility.

The probable origin of haplogroup A occurred in Eastern Anatolia, where it is still present among wild populations, and its presence in Eastern Iran probably is the result of a subsequent feralization of domestic goats.

Andronicus II's campaigns in Anatolia, though it obtained some military success, was constantly thwarted by events in the west of the Empire.

Mu'tasim targeted Amorium, a Byzantine city in western Asia Minor (modern Anatolia), because it was the birthplace of the ruling Byzantine dynasty and, at the time, one of Byzantium's largest and most important cities.

If any lineage is indeed a genuine tracer of Neolithic diffusion from Anatolia, 1) it must be present in the recipient populations and 2) when present its intra-haplotype variation defined by differences in length of the STRs should be a proper subset of that observed in Anatolia.

We know, courtesy of a promotional film for the digital camera they used that it was shot in Anatolia, and that it's "about humans".

At the time of its zenith in the late 8th century, the Phrygian kingdom made up so large a part of Anatolia that geographically it can in a sense be characterized as the political heir to the Hittite empire.

Maḥmūd of Ghazna (reigned ad 998 1030) was the first Muslim ruler to be called sultan by his contemporaries, and under the Seljuqs of Anatolia and Iran it became a regular title.