S. Kagan Agun web pages

4000-year old Ancient City : Troy : Today Troy or New Ilium places in Hisarlik at Canakkale. The remains of the city - the remains from the thieves and destructors - can be visit in here. Most of what was left is the remains of the destruction of Schliemann, the famous archaeologist. Today an international team of scientists brings the Troy of the Bronze Age back to life under sponsored project by Daimler - Benz

Canakkale :The first-waterway on the way of Istanbul, the place where a century was collapsed, the place where 500,000 soldiers lost their lives at Gallipoli, homeland of many civilizations including the ancient city known as Troy, the city of Heroes:

Gallipoli Champaign : These pages were prepared in remembrance of many unknown heroes who lost their lives in Gallipoli Champaign, . Our duty is to carry forth this story of honor to future generations. We, our people, and all the world will never forgot their epics. Galliboli, with its air, forests, and soil, is a living monument. 

History in Depths : First Documentary by Turks on Gallipoli Champaign and underwater search.

Turkish Minelayer ship, Nusret : In the world, you can see museum ships that are still alive and tell their heroitic stories to the next generations. On the other hands we, Turks, sold Yavuz (Ex Goeben) for breaking up and left Nusret half sunk in the mud of Mersin Bay. Minelayer Nusret has stopped Allied naval forces under Amiral de Robeck in the World War I by mining the Gallipoli Straits.

Edirne : a city in western Turkey. Edirne is surrounded on three sides by the Meric river which flows around the city. It is joined by the Tunca river and flows to Eagean Sea by drawing Greece - Turkiye border. Edirne was the Ottoman Capital for several years and in the 1800's was one of the seven largest cities of Europe.

Turkiye (Turkey):  Hannibal is burried in Turkiye. The ruins of great Hellenic cities of the lonian federation are all in Turkiye. Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, Urartian, Hittite, Phygian, Hellenic, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Crusaders, Seljuk, Ottoman civilization were all in Turkiye. More about Turkiye history and the founder of modern turkey, Ataturk.

Replica of wooden horse at Troy

Underwater picture of an allied shipwreck

Selimiye mosque is Architect Sinan's master - piece in Edirne. Its dome is larger than that of Hagia Sophia to show the technological abilities of the Ottoman architecture at that time

 
Last updated on Dec 24, 2000 by Kagan Agun