According to the legend, Chalcedon site had an important place in order to establish the city of Istanbul. The oracles told the King Byzas to build the new city across the blinds’ land. The blinds’ land was Chalcedon. It is named as Kadıköy at present. The Greeks had a large settlement on the Asian minor. Even today around %10 of whole Chalcedon was unearthed. The rest of Chalcedon is under the modern Kadıköy. The archeologists discovered that the first settlements were on the Asian minor of the city.

The underground of Haydarpaşa central train station is covered by the ruins of Chalcedon. This train station was built by Germans. It is my opinion but it is interesting how the builders were blind. This land was full of history. They preffered to build a central train station. The history of Istanbul city is starting with Chalcedon. Even tough it is a modern county of Istanbul, we can see the traces of past on the Asian minor.

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According to the historical records, there used to be small kingdoms in Anatolia before Hittites Empire. The local tribes of Anatolia and the invaders of this land established small states in that geography. We can’t see a central government or an empire in this era. Most of the time, those small states were in war each other briefly a domination struggle was existing.

Hittite empire was established between BC 1660 and 1630. Hattusa was declared as the capital and the border of Hittite Empire expanded on whole Anatolia. It was a combination of Hatti and Luwi cultures. Also we can feel the Mesopotamian influence of Hittite culture. It was the beginning of the empires age in the history. Thanks to their tablets, we are able to get detailed information on Hittites.

Ancient Egypt and Assyrians were the rivals of Hittites in the region. Even Hittites had the first written peace agreement of the history. Kadesh agreement was made with Egypt empire.

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