The Facts of the Veiled Civilization............................

[Ersin Süeren]

The Facts of the veiled civilization  on the East Aegean shores :


The fisherman of Halikarnassos,writer Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı,says that;”I spent my fifteen years in order to erase the absurdities in my mind which I had been thought to me at the Oxford University about the Aegean civilization”.       
The seeds of the Eastern civilization matured on the fertile bosom of Anatolia,and flourished as a great tree extending its shadowy branches through West Anatolian islands of the Aegean Sea .The  scientific progress at the İonia and Aeolia showed its influence at the East Aegean islands.                                            Poets, authors, mathematicians, physicians, astronomers, historians, geographers, sculptors, painters, tragedy composers, whom emerged from  Chios, Samos , Cos, Rhodes, Paros and Thasos islands presented us by the Western world as a Greek origin. İn fact they were the vanguards of the scientific and humanistic developments, constructing bridge on the dark blue waters of the Aegean Sea .    Unfortunatelly our Turkish youth, as their elders, do not care the dangerous veil of absurdity on them .
Western  writers traditionally are in the addiction of transferring every scientific and literary attempts
to the Helenistic world. A very light researh on the Aegean history will easily show you how the famous Greek civilization gushes out on the western books by the contribution of the West Anatolian city states.The renowned short but glorious Pericles time is the main pride of  nowadays Greek  world . İn fact the source of archeological  remnants  at the Greek peninsula was funded by the West Anatolian city states. West Anatolian city states gave great amounts of gold and silver to the mutual treasury at the  Greek controlled Delos island, on the middle of the Aegean sea, in order to stop the coming Persian invasion through West . Actually Athenians transfered this mutual treasury to Greek peninsula reasoning security, but in fact they use all those funds for the construction of Athens. So they flourished the famous Greek architecture .Naturally they realized the needs of science and literature , and there was enough fund  at the so-called mutual defence treasury for this. So they turned their face to the rising sun side of the Aegean. Inevitably, the shining gold at Athens helped the West Anatolian physeesphylos (scientists), poets and literarist to transfer themself at the sunset side of the Aegean. However, the desirous advanture of the most important physeesphylos team of the West Anatolian lasted too short when they try to teach the roundness of the world and moon including the distances of between them.They hardly jumped to Lapsacus which is at the rising side of the sun, and secure their precious heads. As the Sun rises, the birth of the world civilization rised by the East and covered our world as the setting of the Sun, through the West. The flourishing seeds of the Eastern civilization  matured at the fertile bosom of the Asia Minor, as it is shown on the tens of nippelled Anatolian Artemis statues of the antic eras.                                 
İn this territory, at the last 5000 years of the world history you always see those gatherings addressing themselves in different identity.Today, the people who lives on this fertile land are the descendents of                                                                                             
Hittites,Trojans, Phrygians, Liydians, Lycians, Carians, Bithinians, Aeolians, İonians, Mysians, Alasians, Paphlagonians, Cappadochians, Galatians, Cilicians, Thraceans, Pisidians, Phylians, Pontians, Cilicians, Pamphylians, Kurds, Armenians, Urartians, Byzantinians, Selchucians, Ottomans and Altaic Turks. Those people were our ancestors.Now the people who live in Turkey are the descendants of those communities which I mentioned above.That is why, Atatürk, the founder of  young Turkey had  always addressed as; ’the people who live within these boarders are the citizens of the Turkish Rebublic’.He never said, only Turks live in this country , as fanatic nationalist republics  expresses their reel feelings at the first article of their constitution. Maybe your ancestors belong one of those nations whom I mentioned above.When you visit Turkey it won’t be a suprise for you if you find one of your descendants out of those sagacious people who lived way beyond 5000 years ago on this vast,  fertile land. Also you will have more detailed knowledge about those brave and sagacious nature observers who made great contributions by relaying their inventions for the progress of the human kind.                                                                         
                         



Those are some of the physeesphylos, poets and historians who were born and lived at the East Aegean shores of Anatolian peninsula :

Citizens of Miletos (Milet) :
Thales                    640-550 b.c.     physeesphylos, astronomer,one of the seven wise man of his era
Anaximander         611-547   “       physeesphylos, astronomer
Anaximenes           VI.           “       physeesphylos, astronomer
Hecataeus              550-476   “        geographer and chronologist 
Hellanicus              480-405   “        choronologist, predecessor of Hecataeus
Cadmus                  VI.           “        historian
Hippodamus                                     architect, ‘grid system’ city planner of Milet and Priene
İsidoros of Miletos was one of the two architects of Hagia Sophia at İstanbul

Citizen of Ephesus (Efes) :
Heraclitos                536-470  “        physeesphylos, astronomer

Citizen of Priene ( Söke ) :
Bias                          570        b.c.      physeesphylos,one of the seven wise man of his era

Citizens of Halikarnassos (Bodrum) :
Heredotus                484-425  “          historian,called father of history
Dionysius                 30 bc.-8 ac.        historian

Citizen of Claozomenea (Urla/İzmir) :
Anaxagoras              500-428  b.c.      physeesphylos, astronomer

Citizen of Teos (Seferihisar) :
Anacreon                  550          b.c.      Lyric poet

Citizen of Smyrna ( İzmir ) :
Homeros                   VIII.         b.c.       Epic poet, author of the İliada and Odyssey

Citizens of Colophon ( Torbalı/İzmir ) :
Mimnermus – Hermesianax - Nicander are the city’s native poets, priests and physicians
                       
Citizens of Cnidus (Tekir ) :
Euxodus                    360          b.c.         astronomer, physician and math., sun-clock inventor
Eratosthenes              276-195     “.         astronomer, architect Alexandria light house 
Ctesias                       V.            . “           historian and physician
Praxiteles                   350            “           sculptor, founder of the original nude Aphrodite statue

Citizens of Kaunos ( Dalyan ) :
Sodates comedian and poet  -  Protogenes painter

Aratus of Anatolia     315-240    b.c.        poetrys about astronomy
Anthemius of Tralles ( Aydın ) one of the two architects of Hagia Sophia at İstanbul

Xantos ( Kınık ) by being the capital 23 citied first united republic of the world at his time.

Myra ( Demre ) ,Santa Claus lived and died here,but his bones were kidnapped to İtaly.             

Citizens of Samos (Sisam ) :

Aristarchus              310-250 b.c.   astronomer (world turns around the Sun,stars farther than  the Sun ) Aesop                       VI.cent. b.c.    slave fable writer on animals
Epicuros                   342-270 b.c.    physeesphylos ( nature scientist )
Metrodorus                             b.c.    historian
Theopompus             341-270 b.c.    at 36 he opened a school at Athens
Xenophanes              570-480 b.c.
Phsagor                                   b.c.    geometry

Citizen of Cos ( İstanköy ) :

Hippocrates                             b.c.     medicine

Citizen of Paros                 :

Scopas                       IV.cent.b.c.      sculptor of the Mouseleum of Karian king Mausolos

Citizen of Thasos               :

Polygnotus                  V.cent. b.c.     painter

Citizens of Chios ( Sakız ) :

İon                              490-421 b.c.     poet and tragedy composer
Scymnus                                   b.c.     geographer 
Chios İsland is the birth place of the İonic tragedy

Citizen of Rhodes ( Rodos ) :

Cleobulus                    560         b.c.    native of Lindos and tyrant of Rhodes. Saga and lyric poet

İn the Assyrian writings West Anatolia was named as ‘Yavani ‘
İn the Persian writings West Anatolia was named  as ‘ Yauma ‘
İn the Old Testaments of Hebrews West Anatolia was named as ‘ Yewanim ‘

West Anatolia’s city states were divided into three groups as North,South and Central  :

North   : Erythrae-Clazomenea-Phocaea-Samos-Chios
Central : Ephesus-Colophon-Teos-Lebedos
South    : Miletos-Myus-Priene