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Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

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and is located at the center of the capital city. It was once the heart of old Ankara. The name means "tribe, nation" in Turkish. It is now a predominantly a commercial and tourist area made up of banks, malls, shops, hotels, businesses, restaurants, and many historical sites. The first

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convened here in 1923 in the

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building at

Ulus Square Ulus Square ( tr, Ulus Meydanı) is a square in Ankara, Turkey. "''Ulus''" is the Turkish word for "Nation". Geography The square is actually a crossroad of four streets at about . The boulevard to south is Atatürk Boulevard and the street to ...

( tr, Ulus Meydanı), which still stands in original. Across from the historical parliament building is the city's oldest hotel, the Ankara Palas, where Atatürk had stayed.

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, another historical attraction, is located immediate east of Ulus . In the center of Ulus Square, there is a memorial called Monument of Republic, which was erected in 1927 as a symbol of the

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. The Statue of Victory at Ulus Square was depicted on the

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– Retrieved on 20 April 2009. A shopping mall situated next to Ulus square was subject to a terrorist bombing on 22 May 2007.

Places of interest

* Temple of Augustus * Column of Julianus (362 AD) * Roman Bath (3rd century AD) *

War of Independence Museum The War of Independence Museum (''Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi''), housed in the first Turkish Grand National Assembly building in the Ulus district of Ankara, Turkey, displays important photographs, documents and furniture from the Turkish War of ...

(Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi) - originally the first parliament building *

Ankara Ethnography Museum The Ethnography Museum of Ankara is dedicated to the cultures of Turkic civilizations. The building was designed by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu and was built between 1925 and 1928. The museum temporarily hosted the sarcophagus of Mustafa Ke ...

* Hacı Bayram Mosque

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Neighbourhoods of Ankara Altındağ, Ankara {{Altındağ-geo-stub

Places of interest

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