Statistics for History of Turkey

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  • This quiz has been taken 14,083 times
  • The average score is 14 of 20

Answer Stats

QuestioAnswer% Correct
Former name of IstanbulConstantinople
94%
Island country which Turkey invaded in 1974Cyprus
89%
Military alliance which Turkey joined in 1952NATO
85%
Greek leader who conquered most of Turkey in the 300s BCAlexander the Great
81%
The father of the modern Republic of TurkeyMustafa Kemal Atatürk
81%
War which caused the downfall of the Ottoman EmpireWorld War I
81%
Title of the leader of the Ottoman EmpireSultan
78%
Group of people who were the victims of a genocide from 1915–1917
Armenians /
Assyrians / Greeks
75%
Offshoot of the Roman empire which survived in Turkey until the 1400s{Byzantine} Empire
74%
Tassled red hat which was part of the official Ottoman army uniform in the 1800sFez
74%
Country which invited Turkish workers to immigrate in 1960 due to a labor shortageWest Germany
72%
Train route which connected Paris and Istanbul{Orient} Express
71%
Language, spoken by 12% of the population, which was banned from 1980–1991?Kurdish
69%
Controversial President who has been accused of eroding democracy
since his election in 2014
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
69%
Ancient city which was the site of Homer's "Iliad"Troy
69%
Empire which controlled Turkey before the above conquestAchaemenid Empire
(Persia)
64%
City, formerly known as Smyrna, which is currently the third most populous in TurkeyIzmir
57%
Group of people who wanted to modernize and democratize the
Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s?
{Young} Turks
42%
Title of that leader's chief advisorGrand {Vizier}
41%
Roman city which had a population of around 500,000 at the time of JesusAntioch
16%

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