Editing Ankara (section)

== Etymology ==
The orthography of the name ''Ankara''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Перевод sañkara с санскрита на русский |url=https://translate.academic.ru/sa%C3%B1kara/sa/ru/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Словари и энциклопедии на Академике |language=ru}}</ref> has varied over the ages. It has been identified with the [[Hittites|Hittite]] cult center {{lang|hit-Latn|Ankuwaš}},<!--or Ankuwa, but not Ankuwash--><ref name="qgmpff">{{cite web |url=http://socialscience.tjc.edu/mkho/fulbright/1998/turkey/turman3.htm |title=Judy Turman: Early Christianity in Turkey |publisher=Socialscience.tjc.edu |access-date=29 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021115072135/http://socialscience.tjc.edu/mkho/fulbright/1998/turkey/turman3.htm |archive-date=15 November 2002}}</ref><ref name="xtxpyw">{{cite web |url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/seyahat/4407373_p.asp |title=Saffet Emre Tonguç: Ankara (Hürriyet Seyahat) |date=15 May 2006 |publisher=Hurriyet.com.tr |access-date=29 June 2010 |archive-date=8 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608115709/http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/seyahat/4407373_p.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> although this remains a matter of debate.<ref name="Gorny">Gorny, Ronald L. "Zippalanda and Ankuwa: The Geography of Central Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C." ''The Journal of the American Oriental Society''. Vol. 117 (1997).</ref> In classical antiquity and during the medieval period, the city was known as {{lang|grc-Latn|Ánkyra}} ({{lang|grc|Ἄγκυρα}}, {{lit|[[anchor]]}}) in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] and {{lang|la|Ancyra}} in [[Latin]]; the [[Galatian language|Galatian Celtic]] name was probably a similar variant. Following its annexation by the [[Seljuk Turks]] in 1073, the city became known in many European languages as ''Angora''; it was also known in [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] as {{lang|ota-Latn|Engürü}} ({{lang|ota|انگورو}}).{{sfn|Baynes|1878|p=45}}{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=40–41}} The form "Angora" is preserved in the names of breeds of many different kinds of animals, and in the names of several locations in the US (see [[Angora (disambiguation)|Angora]]).