Favorite Turkish City

[Cihan]

Izmir
even though I haven’t been there in a decade

[Kamal900]

Van.

[Thanas Django]

Ürümqi

[Ülev]

İskenderun

[Thanas Django]

İskenderun

Alexandretta, a city founded by Alexander the Great himself.

[Pennywise]

Alexandretta, a city founded by Alexander the Great himself.

Now it's Turkish. Alongside with half of the Cyprus.

[Böri]

Alexandretta, a city founded by Alexander the Great himself.

It was when your ancestors weren't Hellenized yet.
You Cypriots were Semitic Phoenicians back then, you were made Hellenes later, during Ptolemaic Egyptian rule of Cyprus (heirs of Alexander controlling Coptes).

[Sora]

1. Istanbul
2. Tokat

[Thanas Django]

It was when your ancestors weren't Hellenized yet.
You Cypriots were Semitic Phoenicians back then, you were made Hellenes later, during Ptolemaic Egyptian rule of Cyprus (heirs of Alexander controlling Coptes).

No, Cyprus was colonized by Greeks before Alexander the Great. No, Cyprus was inhabited by humans(eteocypriots) before the Phoenicians arrived to found any colony. Those Eteocypriots were probably semitic.

Here's a source: " https://lekythos.library.ucy.ac.cy/b...u.pdf?sequence " .

[Cristiano viejo]

Tirana.