^#smrgSAHAF Ankara from the Past to the Present CİLTLİ -

Ankara has attracted interest for having the characteristics of a multinational, multireligious and multicultural city with its proximity to Hattuşaş, the center of the Hittite civilization which is considered to have been one of the Silk Road. Ankara subsequently had been an important center during the Phrygian and Galatian periods and important commercial and settlement place during the Byzantine, Roma, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. It is also the center where Akhism was founded. During the Ottoman period Ankara has been the heart of Anatolia and a frequently visited place by merchants and travellers with its volume of production and trade of the unique “woven mohair cloth”....