Turkish Military History

Turkish Military History

The military history of Turkey is the history of modern Armed forces established under Republic of Turkey beginning with the Turkish War of Independence.

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Prehistory of Anatolia & Thrace
  • Palaeolithic c 500,000 – 10,000 BCE
  • Mesolithic c. 11,000 – 9,000 BC
  • Neolithic c. 8,000 – 5,500 BC Speakers of Anatolian languages
    • Hittites
    • Palaics
    • Luwians
    • Lycians
    • Milyans
    • Caria / Carians
    • Sidetics
    • Pisidians
    • Lydia / Lydians
    Speakers of other/unknown lang.
    • Arzawa
    • Assuwa league
    • Diauehi
    • Hattians
    • Hayasa-Azzi
    • Isaurians
    • Kaskians
    • Kizzuwatna
    • Lukka
    • Lycaonians
    • Millawanda
    • Mysians
    • Neo–Hittites
    • Old Assyrian Kingdom
    • Pamphylians
    • Phrygia
    • Troad / Troy
    • Urartu
    • Wilusa
  • List of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia
Classical Anatolia & Thrace
  • Aeolis c. 8th–6th centuries BC
  • Ionian League c. 7th–6th centuries BC
  • Median Empire c. 625 BC – 549 BC
  • Achaemenid Empire c. 559 BC – 331 BC
  • Odrysian Kingdom c. 460 BC - 46 AD
  • Kingdom of Alexander the Great
  • 334 BC – c. 323 BC
  • Diadochi 334 BC – c. 301 BC
  • Lysimachian Empire 301 – 281 BC
  • Ptolemaic Kingdom 301 – 30 BC
  • Seleucid Empire c. 301 BC – 64 BC
  • Kingdom of Pontus c. 302 BC – 64 BC
  • Attalids of Pergamon 282 BC – 129 BC
  • Kingdom of Armenia 190 BC – 428 AD
  • The Roman Republic 509 BC –27 BC
  • The Roman Empire 27 BC – 330 AD
Byzantine Anatolia
  • The Byzantine Empire 330–1453
  • Byzantium under the Heraclians 610–711
  • Isaurian dynasty and Iconoclasm 730–787 / 814–842
  • Byzantium under the Macedonians 867–1056
  • Byzantium under the Komnenoi 1081–1185
  • Byzantium under the Angeloi 1185–1204
  • Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 1078–1375
  • The Empire of Trebizond 1204–1461
  • The Empire of Nicaea 1204–1261
  • Byzantium under the Palaiologoi 1260–1453
The Seljuqs & Anatolian beyliks
  • Great Seljuq Empire
  • Battle of Manzikert
  • Sultanate of Rum
  • Mongol conquest of Anatolia
  • Ilkhanate
Ottoman Empire
  • Rise of the Ottoman Empire
  • Growth of the Ottoman Empire
  • Stagnation of the Ottoman Empire
  • Decline of the Ottoman Empire
  • Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
Republic of Turkey
  • War of Independence
  • Provisional government
  • Atatürk's Reforms
  • Single-party period
  • Multi-party period
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