Turkey, a very short history

Outline of the geography, peoples, and languages of the region now called Turkey, followed by very concise fact-filled history of the Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, and other ancient peoples, the Byzantine empire, the origin of the Turks, the Seljuk and Ottoman empires, the rise of modern Turkey, the Kurds, Armenians, and other minorities. Originally written for those traveling to Turkey for the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.

8½ x 11 in. 22 pages. April 1999; reprinted with revisions May, June, July, October 1999; 2nd edition Jan 2004.
ISBN 0-934546-39-8.
$4.00

"I've never seen so much history compressed into so small a space!" —Leif Robinson, editor of Sky & Telescope