Turkey
- Battle of Ankara
- Battle of Granicus - First major battle of Alexander the Great in Persia
- Battle of Issus - 333 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Dario III of Persia
- Battle of Manzikert
- Siege of Constantinople (717–718)
- The Fourth Crusade
- Battle of Dorylaeum
- Battle of Dorylaeum (1147)
- Battle of Chesma - 1770
- Battle of Sinop - 1853
Read more about this topic: List Of Battles (geographic)
Famous quotes containing the word turkey:
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)