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CAPITAL OF TURKEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
Synonyms:
Angora; Ankara; capital of Turkey; Turkish capital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("capital of Turkey" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)