Have a go at some traditional Turkish art, make a pot, weave a rug
Santa Claus lived in Anatolia, and yes, he was a real person. He was born in a town called Patara along the Mediterranean Sea in 270, and worked as the archbishop in Myra, today’s Demre. He died on December 6th, 347.
Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian.
At its greatest extent, the Kingdom of Lydia covered all of western Anatolia. Lydia (known as Sparda by the Achaemenids) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap (governor).
Lydia was later the name of a Roman province. Coins are said to have been invented in Lydia around the 7th century BC.