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    150 m (500 ft) over the left bank of the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. The hill remains crowned by the ruins of Ankara Castle. Although...
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    begins in the northwest where an area of dry steppe is diluted by the Sakarya and Porsuk river system and is home to the settlements of Dorylaeum near...
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    goddess, and she turned him into a river that bore his name; Sangarius (now Sakarya River) in Asia Minor. In a similar manner a Phrygian man named Pyrrhus...
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    Germiyan Ildır Ilıca İsmet İnönü Karaköy Musalla Onaltı Eylül Ovacık Reisdere Sakarya Şehit Mehmet Şifne Üniversite Yalı Ilıca is a large resort area 5 km east...
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    famous tale in Greek mythology of the Golden Fleece in which Jason and the Argonauts stole the Golden Fleece from King Aeetes, with the help of his daughter...
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    fiber had been rotted by Western ways. Turkey’s leaders were too busy fleecing the public and having affairs with each other to bother themselves with...
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