Portal:Turkey/Did you know/Test
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- ... that the Turks were who introduced coffee to Europe?
- ... that Julius Caesar proclaimed his celebrated words, "Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)" in North Anatolia when he defeated the Pontus, a kingdom in the Black Sea region of Turkey?
- ... that the most valuable silk carpet in the world is in the Mevlana Museum in Konya, Turkey
- ... that two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World stood in Turkey - the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum.
- ... that the word turquoise comes from French meaning Turkish?

