Hue City (CG 66) - Naval Cruise Book

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On July 4th, 2002. Hue City pulled into Aksaz Turkey Aksaz Itself consisted of little more than the Naval Base However, the nearby tounst resort town of Marmans provided more than enough entertainment for the crew From Bar Steet to the beach front, our Sailors could be found enjoying the summertime fun. Turkey is a Middle Eastern countn that lies mainl in st)uth Nestem Asia, with a small area extending into M uthea.slem Europe. The capital is Ankara. Turkey is bordered n the north by the Black Sea, to the east by Georgia Armenia and Iran, to the south by Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea, and to the west by the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria. The Asian part otTurkes. Khich is called Anatolia, is sep;u-ated from the European part. Thrace, by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles Strait. Turkey is among the larger countries of the Middle East, in temis olterritop. and population, and its land area is greater than that of any European stale. Nearl all of the counu is in Asia, compnsing the oblong peninsula of Asia Minor, known alst) as Anatolia. The remainder — Turkish Thrace — lies in the extreme southeastern part of Europe, a liny remnant of an empire that once extended over much of the Balkans. A long succession « f political entities existed in Asia Minor over the centuries. Turkmen tribes in aded Anatolia in the 1 1th centur . D. founding the .Scljiiq empire: during the 14th centur the Ottoman limpire began a long expansion, reaching its [vak dunng the 1 7th century. The modem Turkish Republic, founded in 1 923 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, is a nationalist, secular, parliamentary demwracy After a period of one-party rule under its t )under, Mustafa Kemal. and his successor, Turkish gtnemments since the ly.SOs have been produced b multiparty elections based on universal adult suffrage. It is not known when Manriaris was founded, but Physkos as Marmaris was previously known, was part of the Carian F:mpire in the 6th century B.C. u hen overrun by the Lydians. Another invasion by the Eydians in ?M B.C. led to the partition of the Roman Empire of Alexander the Great. According to the historian Herodotus, the Carians settled in what is now the prin ince of Mugla after coming from Crete. The also t(X)k t» er the tow n of Ph skos w iih its large natural luirl-HHir. and used it as a military base for their campaigns against the Ph(x;nicians in Rhodes and other Aegean islands.The Carian civilization entered a dark pericxJ after 3(X) B.C., coming under the rule of the Egyptians. Asslrians. lonians and Dorians successively. In 1 38 B.C. Attalos the 3rd, King of Bergama. u hose predecessors had ruled Caria for 9() years, ceded Physkos to Rome and the city as ruled from Rhodes by Roman generals. The city became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1425. and the castle was built in 1.521 AD for use in a planned assault on Rhodes. The Ottoman Sultan at the tiine. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman. changed the name of the town to Mimaras. which then became Mamiaris according to the historian Evlija Celebi. 72 USS Hue City (CG-66)

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