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Antarktika

Antarctica (from ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός antarktikos , the Arctic over ') is the South continent of the Earth that is also the South Pole is itself. [1] [2] It is located in the Antarctic (Zone beyond 66.6 ° width ), with which it is colloquially often identified. Other names are the southern continent and the Antarctic continent . Antarctica has an area of approximately 14 million square kilometers and is almost entirely of the Antarctic ice sheet covered. A geographical distinction is made between the regions of West Antarctica and East Antarctica . The existence of an undiscovered southern continent has been suspected since ancient times and has been called Terra Australis ("Southern Country"). With the exploration of the southern Pacific , New Zealand and Australia by Abel Tasman in the 17th century and James Cook in the 18th century, its possible location was restricted to the high southern latitudes. The

CAPPADOCIA

Cappadocia became part of the Hittite Empire in the 2nd millennium BC. J. - C.: they establish their capital Hattusha there (current Boğazkale, better known under its previous name Boğazköy, sometimes noted with the French spelling Boghaz Keui). The region is then a traditional area of trade with the Assyrians, because of its mines (gold, silver, copper), as evidenced in particular by the very numerous cuneiform tablets discovered on the site of the Hittite city of Kanesh (currently Kültepe ); the region, then inhabited by the Louvites, appears on certain tablets under the name of Kitsuvatna1. Around 1200 BC. AD, the Hittite Empire collapsed, invaded by the Peoples of the sea and the Phrygians. Around 1100 BC. AD, Cappadocia was conquered by the Assyrian king Téglath-Phalasar Ier. In the ninth century BC. AD, it was taken over by the Phrygians, then was dominated by Lydia from 696 BC. Then come the Medes (to the northeast) and the Cimmerians (to the southwest), who make some foray

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