Ankara Province (Turkish: Ankara ili, pronounced, is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km², and its population is 5,782,285. The site of the modern city has been home to settlements by many historic Anatolian civilizations in antiquity and classical times, including Phrygians, Lydians, Persians …Ankara Province (Turkish: Ankara ili, pronounced, is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km², and its population is 5,782,285. The site of the modern city has been home to settlements by many historic Anatolian civilizations in antiquity and classical times, including Phrygians, Lydians, Persians and Alexander the Great, Romans, and Galatians. The city of Ankara became a fortified stronghold of the Byzantines; it fell to the Seljuk Turks and later the Ottoman Empire. It was finally chosen by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish National Movement as the site of the provisional government and the Turkish parliament in 1920, and in 1923 as the capital city of the newly established Republic of Turkey.
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