Ankara Province

Ankara Province () is a province in central Turkey an the location o the kintra's caipital, the ceety o Ankara.

Ankara an aa gave its name tae the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Vilayet (vilayet) which covered a muckler aurie than the current province.

 Geography 
Situatit on the muckle plains o central Anatolie, wi muntain forests tae the north an the dry plain o Konya tae the sooth.  The plain is irrigatit bi the Kızılırmak an Sakarya River seestems, the Sarıyar reservoir an mony natural lakes an puiols.  50% o the land is uised for agricultur, 28% is forest an anither 10% is meadow an grazin land.  The muckle salt lake Tuz Golu pairtly lies in the province. The heichest point is the 2,015m Işık Muntain.

The climate is hot an dry in simmer, rainy in ware an hairst, cauld an snawin in winter, wetter in the north o the province than the drier plains tae the sooth.

 History 
See Ankara for the history o this region which haes seen the passin o numerous great ceevilisations includin Phrygians, Lydians, Persians an Alexander the Great, Galatians; the ceety o Ankara becomin a fortifee'd stranghauld o the Byzantines; an then fallin tae the Seljuk Turks, an later the Ottoman Empire; an feenally being chosen bi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as the steid o Turkis parliament in 1920 an subsequently in 1923 as the caipital ceety o the Republic o Turkey.

 Destricts 
Akyurt
Altındağ
Ayaş
Bala
Beypazarı
Çamlıdere 
Çankaya
Çubuk
Elmadağ
Etimesgut
Evren
Gölbaşı
Güdül
Haymana
Kalecik
Kazan
Keçiören
Kızılcahamam
Mamak
Nallıhan
Polatlı
Sincan
Yenimahalle
Şereflikoçhisar

 See an aa 
 Ankara Vilayet
 References 

 Freemit airtins 

Ankara travel information

Category:Central Anatolie Region