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{{Infobox settlement 
|official_name=Ankara
|settlement_type=City
|timezone=[[Eastren European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset=+2
|map_caption=Location o Ankara athin Turkey.
|timezone_DST=[[Eastren European Simmer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST=+3
|image_skyline=Ankara Views.jpg
|image_caption=
|image_blank_emblem=
|blank_emblem_type=
|subdivision_type=[[Leet o kintras|Kintra]]
|subdivision_name =[[Turkey]]
|http://ankara.ankaram.net/en/
|subdivision_type1=[[Regions o Turkey|Region]]
|subdivision_name1=[[Central Anatolie Region|Central Anatolie]]
|subdivision_type2=[[Provinces o Turkey|Province]]
|subdivision_name2=[[Ankara Province|Ankara]]
|population_metro=4,431,719
|population_urban=
|population_footnotes=<ref name=ak2010>[http://tuikrapor.tuik.gov.tr/reports/rwservlet?adnksdb2=&ENVID=adnksdb2Env&report=buyukbelediye.RDF&p_kod=1&p_yil=2010&p_dil=1&desformat=html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002182016/http://tuikrapor.tuik.gov.tr/reports/rwservlet?adnksdb2=&ENVID=adnksdb2Env&report=buyukbelediye.RDF&p_kod=1&p_yil=2010&p_dil=1&desformat=html |date=2011-10-02 }} Address-based population report 2010.</ref>
|population_as_of=2010
|population_density_km2=1551
|area_total_km2=2516
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|pushpin_map_caption =Location o Ankara
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|coordinates      = {{coord|39|52|N|32|52|E|region:TR|display=inline}}
|elevation_m=938 
|postal_code_type=[[Postal code]]
|postal_code=06xxx
|area_code=312
|blank_info=06
|blank_name=[[Vehicle registration plates o Turkey|Licence&nbsp;plate]]
|leader_name=[[Mansur Yavaş]] <ref>[https://www.ankara.bel.tr/baskan?web=1 Mayor Mansur Yavaş]</ref>
|leader_party=CHP
|leader_title=Mayor
|leader_title1=Govrenor
|leader_name1=Vasip Şahin
|website=[http://www.ankara.bel.tr/ http://www.ankara.bel.tr/] <br /> [http://www.ankara.gov.tr/ http://www.ankara.gov.tr/]
}}

'''Ankara''' is the caipital o [[Turkey]] an the kintras's [[List o mucklest cities an seicont mucklest cities bi kintra|seicont mucklest]] [[List o cities in Turkey|city]] efter [[Istanbul]]. The city haes a mean elevation o 938 meters [[abuin sea level]], wi varyin [[elevation]]s frae 900 meters tae 1,300 meters abuin sea level.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/TU/68/Ankara.html Ankara, Turkey: Latitude, Longitude and Altitude]</ref> As o 2008 the city haed 4,500,000 fowk. Ankara forby is the caipital o [[Ankara Province]].

As wi mony auncient cities, Ankara haes gane bi several names ower the ages. It haes been identified wi the [[Hittite]] cult center '''Ankuwaš''',<!--or Ankuwa, but not Ankuwash--><ref name = "qgmpff">{{cite web |url=http://socialscience.tjc.edu/mkho/fulbright/1998/turkey/turman3.htm |title=Judy Turman: Early Christianity in Turkey |publisher=Socialscience.tjc.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-06-29 |archive-date=2008-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201235800/http://socialscience.tjc.edu/mkho/fulbright/1998/turkey/turman3.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name = "xtxpyw">{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/seyahat/4407373_p.asp |title=Saffet Emre Tonguç: Ankara (Hürriyet Seyahat) |publisher=Hurriyet.com.tr |date= |accessdate=2010-06-29}}</ref> awtho this is a matter o debate.<ref name="Gorny">Gorny, Ronald L. "Zippalanda and Ankuwa: The Geography of Central Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C." ''The Journal of the American Oriental Society''. Vol. 117 (1997).</ref> In classical antiquity an durin the medieval period, the city wis kent as '''Ánkyra''' ({{Polytonic|'''Ἄγκυρα'''}}, "[[anchor]]") in [[Auncient Greek|Greek]] an '''Ancyra''' in [[Latin]]; the [[Galatian leid|Galatian Celtic]] name wis mebbe a seemilar variant. Follaein its annexation bi the [[Seljuk Turks]] in 1073, the city became kent in mony European leids as '''Angora''', a uisage which continued till its offeecial renamin tae '''Ankara''' unner the Turkish Postal Service Law o 1930.<ref>{{cite web |author=Tore Kjeilen |url=http://i-cias.com/e.o/ankara.htm |title=Ankara |publisher=I-cias.com |date=2004-09-03 |accessdate=2009-05-05 |archive-date=2009-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113175015/http://i-cias.com/e.o/ankara.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Centrally locatit in [[Anatolie]], Ankara is an important commercial an industrial city. It is the centre o the [[Politics o Turkey|Turkish Govrenment]], an hooses aw foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads o tred, strategically locatit at the centre o Turkey's heichway an railwey netwirks, an serves as the mercatin centre for the surroondin agricultural area. The city wis famous for its lang-haired [[Angora goat]] an its prized wool ([[mohair]]), a unique breed o cat ([[Turkish Angora|Angora cat]]), [[Angora rabbit|white rabbits]] an thair prized wool ([[Angora wool]]), [[peir]]s, [[honey]], an the region's [[muscat (grape an wine)|muscat]] [[grape]]s.

The historical centre o Ankara is situatit upon a rocky hill, which rises 150&nbsp;m (492&nbsp;ft) abuin the plain on the left bank o the ''Ankara Çayı'', a tributary o the [[Sakarya River|Sakarya]] (Sangarius) river. The city is locatit at 39°52'30" North, 32°52' East ({{Coord|39.875|N|32.8333|E|type:city_region:TR|display=inline,title}}), aboot 351&nbsp;km (218&nbsp;mi) tae the sootheast o Istanbul, the kintra's mucklest city. Awtho situatit in ane o the driest places o Turkey an surroondit maistly bi steppe vegetation except for the forestit areas on the soothren periphery, Ankara can be considered a green city in terms o green areas per inhabitant, that is 72&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup> per heid.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ankara.bel.tr/AbbSayfalari/hizmet_birimleri/Cevre/kisi_basina_dusen_yesil_alan.aspx |title=Municipality of Ankara: Green areas per head |publisher=Ankara.bel.tr |date= |accessdate=2010-06-29 |archive-date=2011-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719022657/http://www.ankara.bel.tr/AbbSayfalari/hizmet_birimleri/Cevre/kisi_basina_dusen_yesil_alan.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Ankara is a verra auld city wi various [[Hittites|Hittite]], [[Phrygie|Phrygian]], [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]], [[Roman Empire|Roman]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[archaeological site]]s. The hill which owerleuks the city is crouned bi the ruins o the auld castle, which adds tae the picturesqueness o the view, but anly a few historic structures surroondin the auld citadel hae survived tae the present day. Thare are, housomeivver, mony finely preserved remains o [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]], [[Roman Empire|Roman]] an [[Byzantine architecture]], the maist remarkable bein the Temple o [[Augustus]] an Roum (20 BC) which is cried the ''[[Monumentum Ancyranum]]'' an aa.<sup><ref>{{cite web|url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/home.html |title=LacusCurtius • Monumentum Ancyranum |publisher=Penelope.uchicago.edu |date= |accessdate=2009-05-05}}</ref></sup>

== Internaitional relations ==
{{See an aa|Leet o twin touns an sister cities in Turkey}}

=== Twin touns — sister cities ===
Ankara is [[twin touns an sister cities|twinned]] wi:<ref name="Ankara">{{cite web|url=http://www.ankara-bel.gov.tr/AbbSayfalari/hizmet_birimleri/dis_dairesi_baskanligi/avrupa_gunu_kutlamasi.aspx|title=''Ankara Metropolitan Municipality: Sister Cities of Ankara''|publisher=[[copyright|©]] 2007 Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi - Tüm Hakları Saklıdır. Kullanım Koşulları & Gizlilik.|accessdate=2008-12-08|archive-date=2009-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114033014/http://www.ankara-bel.gov.tr/AbbSayfalari/hizmet_birimleri/dis_dairesi_baskanligi/avrupa_gunu_kutlamasi.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> o Ankara are leetit belaw:

{|
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;[[Africae]]
* {{flagicon|Egypt}} '''[[Cairo]]''', [[Egyp]] (2004)
* {{flagicon|Sudan}} '''[[Khartoum]]''', [[Sudan]] (1992)
* {{flagicon|Somalia}} '''[[Mogadishu]]''', [[Somalie]] (1959)
;[[Americas]]
* {{flagicon|Cuba}} '''[[Havana]]''', [[Cuba]] (1993)
* {{flagicon|Chile}} '''[[Santiago]]''', [[Chile]] (2000)
* {{flagicon|USA}} '''[[Washington, D.C.]]''', Unitit States, syne 2011
* {{flagicon|Bolivia}} '''[[La Paz]]''', Bolivie, syne 2009
;[[Asie]]
* {{flagicon|Thailand}} '''[[Bangkok]]''', [[Thailand]] (2006)
* {{flagicon|Turkmenistan}} '''[[Ashgabat]]''', [[Turkmenistan]] (1994)
* {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} '''[[Astana]]''', [[Kazakhstan]] (2001)
* {{flagicon|China}} '''[[Beijing]]''', [[Fowkrepublic o Cheenae|Cheenae]](1990)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/|title=Sister Cities|publisher=Beijing Municipal Government|accessdate=2009-06-23|archive-date=2010-01-17|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5mq6B2fdq?url=http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Vietnam}} '''[[Hanoi]]''', [[Vietnam]] (1998)
* {{flagicon|Pakistan}} '''[[Islamabad]]''', [[Pakistan]] (1982)
* {{flagicon|Iran}} '''[[Shiraz]]''', [[Iran]]
* {{flagicon|Malaysia}} '''[[Kuala Lumpur]]''', [[Malaysie]] (1984)
* {{flagicon|Kuwait}} '''[[Kuwait City|Kuwait City]]''', [[Kuwait]] (1994)
* {{flagicon|Bahrain}} '''[[Manama]]''', [[Bahrain]] (2000)
* {{flagicon|South Korea}} '''[[Seoul]]''', [[Republic o Korea|Sooth Korea]] (1971)
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;[[Europe]]
* {{flagicon|France}} '''[[Bourg-en-Bresse]]''', [[Fraunce]]
* {{flagicon|Azerbaijan}} '''[[Baku]]''', [[Azerbaijan]]
* {{flagicon|Romania}} '''[[Bucharest]]''', [[Romanie]] (1998)
* {{flagicon|Ukraine}} '''[[Kiev]]''', [[Ukraine]] (1993)
* {{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[Moscow]]''', [[Roushie]] (1992)
* {{flagicon|Kosovo}} '''[[Pristina]]''', [[Kosovo]] (2005)
* {{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} '''[[Sarajevo]]''', [[Bosnie an Herzegovinae]] (1994)<ref>{{cite web |author=daenet d.o.o. |url=http://www.sarajevo.ba/en/stream.php?kat=160 |title=Sarajevo Official Web Site : Sister cities |publisher=Sarajevo.ba |date= |accessdate=2009-05-06 |archive-date=2018-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226040906/https://sarajevo.ba/en/stream.php?kat=160%20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} '''[[Sofia]]''', [[Bulgaria]] (1992)
* {{flagicon|Georgia}} '''[[Tbilisi]]''', [[Georgie (kintra)|Georgie]] (1996)<ref name="Tbilisi Sister Cities">{{cite web|url=http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=4571|title=Tbilisi Municipal Portal - Sister Cities|publisher=© 2009 - Tbilisi City Hall|accessdate=2009-06-16|archive-date=2013-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724120155/http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=4571|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Albania}} '''[[Tirana]]''', [[Albanie]] (1995)<ref name="International relations">{{cite web |url=http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/International%20Relations.pdf |title=Twinning Cities: International Relations |accessdate=2009-06-23 |work=Municipality of Tirana |publisher=www.tirana.gov.al |format=PDF |archive-date=2011-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010042121/http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/International%20Relations.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|}

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Ankara Atakule.JPG|[[Atakule Touer]] an [[Atakule Tower|Atrium]] maw in central Ankara
File:Sezenler Sokak.JPG
File:Ankara (16290014657).jpg
File:Altınpark vadi 2014.jpg
File:AŞTİ junction - Balgat.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==
=== Notes ===
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== Freemit airtins ==
{{commons|Ankara}}
* [http://www.ankara.gov.tr/ Govrenorship o Ankara]
* [http://www.ankara.bel.tr/ Municipality o Ankara]
* [http://www.ankara.com/ Ankara City Guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808175633/http://www.ankara.com/ |date=2021-08-08 }}
* [http://www.esenbogaairport.com/ Esenboğa Internaitional Airport]
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