turks

     

Turk or Turkish may refer to:

Trivia about turks

  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tinos in Greece.) In 1715, Tinos became the last island to fall to these conquerors from across the Aegean
  • In the 1980s Bulgaria ordered this ethnic minority from a neighbor to the southeast to take Slavic names
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.) Legend says the Viennese began their love affair with coffee after fending off these invaders, who in 1683 left behind sacks of coffee beans
  • In 1916 some 10,000 British & Indian troops trapped in the Mesopotamian town of Kut surrendered to these foes