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Those taking a holiday in Turkey can enjoy breathtaking natural beauty combined with unique historical and archaeological sites. Surrounded on three sides by three different seas, its shores are lined with beaches, bays, coves, ports, islands and peninsulas. The ability to enjoy the luxury hotels of Turkey is virtually a year round event as summers last as long as eight months in some areas, making it a perfect sunshine destination from early spring through to late autumn.
Turkey is a vast peninsula, linking Asia to Europe through the Sea of Marmara and the Straits of Istanbul and Çanakkale. The country is characterised by a central plateau surrounded by chains of mountains on the north, west and south and a rugged mountainous region in the east with an average elevation of 1,050 metres. In the west, the mountains descend gently towards the sea. The northern Anatolia mountain range and the Taurus range in the south, stretch like arcs. Turkey’s highest mountain is Mount Ararat, situated in the northeast is alleged to have been the final resting place for Noah’s Ark.
The country is like a mosaic made up of many different reliefs and formations: parallel mountain ranges, extinct volcanoes, plateaus fissured by valleys and plains. The climate varies considerably from region to region; being temperate around the Black Sea, a Mediterranean temperature on the southern coast and the Aegean, a continental and arid environment on the central plateau and a harsh .....
Those taking a holiday in Turkey can enjoy breathtaking natural beauty combined with unique historical and archaeological sites. Surrounded on three sides by three different seas, its shores are lined with beaches, bays, coves, ports, islands and peninsulas. The ability to enjoy the luxury hotels of Turkey is virtually a year round event as summers last as long as eight months in some areas, making it a perfect sunshine destination from early spring through to late autumn.
Turkey is a vast peninsula, linking Asia to Europe through the Sea of Marmara and the Straits of Istanbul and Çanakkale. The country is characterised by a central plateau surrounded by chains of mountains on the north, west and south and a rugged mountainous region in the east with an average elevation of 1,050 metres. In the west, the mountains descend gently towards the sea. The northern Anatolia mountain range and the Taurus range in the south, stretch like arcs. Turkey’s highest mountain is Mount Ararat, situated in the northeast is alleged to have been the final resting place for Noah’s Ark.
The country is like a mosaic made up of many different reliefs and formations: parallel mountain ranges, extinct volcanoes, plateaus fissured by valleys and plains. The climate varies considerably from region to region; being temperate around the Black Sea, a Mediterranean temperature on the southern coast and the Aegean, a continental and arid environment on the central plateau and a harsh mountain climate in eastern Turkey. Due to these variations, the fauna and flora are some of the richest in Europe and the Middle East, with more than 10,000 species of plants in Turkey, 20 per cent of which are found only in these lands.
Turkey is separated into seven geographical regions, which are, in order of size: East Anatolia, Central Anatolia, Black Sea, Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and southeast Anatolia.
