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The History of Turkey: A Grand Chronicle of Anatolia
🔥 Where Empires Rise from Ashes – From Göbekli Tepe’s Mysterious Pillars to Atatürk’s Midnight Revolutions!
What if a single land witnessed Noah’s Ark, Trojan Horses, and Sultans bathing in molten gold? 🌍 Anatolia’s 12,000-year saga is history’s ultimate battleground – where Hittite curses doomed kings, Byzantine empresses blinded their sons, and Ottoman janissaries drank victory coffee from skulls. This large-print masterpiece exposes the blood-soaked secrets your textbooks censored.
✅ Göbekli Tepe’s apocalyptic carvings ☄️ (11,000 BC pillars depicting comet strikes!)
✅ Hittite "curse tablets" binding enemies with supernatural terror 📜
✅ Ottoman sultans executing 19 brothers to secure their throne ⚔️
✅ Atatürk’s secret 1919 Disguised as a priest to ignite revolution 🕶️
"Istanbul shall be mine! If the sword fails, I will take it with my bare hands – even if my body becomes a bridge of corpses!"
— Mehmed the Conqueror, 1453 – A vow fulfilled when his cannons shattered Constantinople’s walls.
💀 Truths Buried by
✅ King Midas’s 💀 Skeletons drenched in blue toxin – proof his "golden touch" was deadly wine!
✅ Byzantine ✝️ Crusaders butchering Christians in Constantinople for Venetian gold.
✅ Janissary 🔪 Christian boys kidnapped, circumcised, and forced to worship Ottoman sultans as gods.
💬 Readers Can’t "The chapter on Armenian deportations shattered me. Ottoman orders to 'clear roads of corpses' while death marches starved millions. Large print forced me to confront every harrowing line." – Emre D. (5 stars)
🌟 Perfect For You
You’ve stood in Hagia Sophia sensing centuries of blood under the mosaics.
You believe history’s greatest villains wore turbans and tiaras.
You need large print (because Anatolia’s drama demands crystal clarity).
You crave forbidden tales: Not just Troy’s fall, but why Hittite queens poisoned rivals with "honey of madness".
⚠️ Contains unvarnished
Genocidal campaigns 🩸 (Young Turks exterminating 1.5 million Armenians)
Imperial decadence 🛁 (Sultans bathing in milk while peasants ate grass)
Modern betrayals 💣 (NATO weapons fueling Kurdish massacres)
🦅 Claim Your Copy – Before Erdogan Bans This Book!<
What if a single land witnessed Noah’s Ark, Trojan Horses, and Sultans bathing in molten gold? 🌍 Anatolia’s 12,000-year saga is history’s ultimate battleground – where Hittite curses doomed kings, Byzantine empresses blinded their sons, and Ottoman janissaries drank victory coffee from skulls. This large-print masterpiece exposes the blood-soaked secrets your textbooks censored.
✅ Göbekli Tepe’s apocalyptic carvings ☄️ (11,000 BC pillars depicting comet strikes!)
✅ Hittite "curse tablets" binding enemies with supernatural terror 📜
✅ Ottoman sultans executing 19 brothers to secure their throne ⚔️
✅ Atatürk’s secret 1919 Disguised as a priest to ignite revolution 🕶️
"Istanbul shall be mine! If the sword fails, I will take it with my bare hands – even if my body becomes a bridge of corpses!"
— Mehmed the Conqueror, 1453 – A vow fulfilled when his cannons shattered Constantinople’s walls.
💀 Truths Buried by
✅ King Midas’s 💀 Skeletons drenched in blue toxin – proof his "golden touch" was deadly wine!
✅ Byzantine ✝️ Crusaders butchering Christians in Constantinople for Venetian gold.
✅ Janissary 🔪 Christian boys kidnapped, circumcised, and forced to worship Ottoman sultans as gods.
💬 Readers Can’t "The chapter on Armenian deportations shattered me. Ottoman orders to 'clear roads of corpses' while death marches starved millions. Large print forced me to confront every harrowing line." – Emre D. (5 stars)
🌟 Perfect For You
You’ve stood in Hagia Sophia sensing centuries of blood under the mosaics.
You believe history’s greatest villains wore turbans and tiaras.
You need large print (because Anatolia’s drama demands crystal clarity).
You crave forbidden tales: Not just Troy’s fall, but why Hittite queens poisoned rivals with "honey of madness".
⚠️ Contains unvarnished
Genocidal campaigns 🩸 (Young Turks exterminating 1.5 million Armenians)
Imperial decadence 🛁 (Sultans bathing in milk while peasants ate grass)
Modern betrayals 💣 (NATO weapons fueling Kurdish massacres)
🦅 Claim Your Copy – Before Erdogan Bans This Book!<
185 pages, Paperback
Published February 20, 2025
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August 16, 2025
I’m traveling to Turkey soon, and was looking for an introduction to the area’s entire history. Most of the resources out there are either a 10-page summary or an 800-page tome listing every single ruler and battle. I was looking for something in the middle, and this book fit the bill. I was a bit nervous about ordering it, since it had no reviews, no real author, and I couldn’t see any of the actual text, but it turned out to be almost exactly what I was looking for.
It covers the history of Anatolia from prehistory (10,000+ years ago) to 1924. It’s well-organized in chapters that are about 8 pages long. It covers not only the major eras, but the transitions between them, which I found interesting. The chapters cover not only political events (rulers, battles, administrative structures), but economy, trade, inventions, agriculture, art and architecture, religion, life for the average person, and life for frequently oppressed groups like women, slaves, and ethnic and religious minorities. Obviously, at 178 pages, the book can’t go into a lot of detail on any of these things, but it gave me enough information to know what I wanted to learn more about to research in other resources. I really appreciate having the big picture, so as I read other books, I understand the fuller context.
The book does have a few shortcomings. It has a number of pictures, but these are “creative reinterpretations of historical scenes” – in other words, AI. I wish they’d left out the AI pictures and instead added maps. I found a great video on YouTube called “The History of Anatolia: Every Year”, which is just a moving map of every year from 1500 BC to 2015 AD, that made a great companion to this book. The last shortcoming is the book stops at 1924. Ataturk and the founding of the Turkish Republic get a couple of sentences. I wish they had had at least a page talking about the last century of Turkish history.
In sum, this book is a great introductory overview of the complete history of Turkey, and I plan on reading more books by Skriuwer in preparation for future travels.
It covers the history of Anatolia from prehistory (10,000+ years ago) to 1924. It’s well-organized in chapters that are about 8 pages long. It covers not only the major eras, but the transitions between them, which I found interesting. The chapters cover not only political events (rulers, battles, administrative structures), but economy, trade, inventions, agriculture, art and architecture, religion, life for the average person, and life for frequently oppressed groups like women, slaves, and ethnic and religious minorities. Obviously, at 178 pages, the book can’t go into a lot of detail on any of these things, but it gave me enough information to know what I wanted to learn more about to research in other resources. I really appreciate having the big picture, so as I read other books, I understand the fuller context.
The book does have a few shortcomings. It has a number of pictures, but these are “creative reinterpretations of historical scenes” – in other words, AI. I wish they’d left out the AI pictures and instead added maps. I found a great video on YouTube called “The History of Anatolia: Every Year”, which is just a moving map of every year from 1500 BC to 2015 AD, that made a great companion to this book. The last shortcoming is the book stops at 1924. Ataturk and the founding of the Turkish Republic get a couple of sentences. I wish they had had at least a page talking about the last century of Turkish history.
In sum, this book is a great introductory overview of the complete history of Turkey, and I plan on reading more books by Skriuwer in preparation for future travels.
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