Armutlu Peninsula density in the mountains at the inner peninsula is low, where there are only small villages. Both gulfs at the north and the south are actually on two active tectonic fault lines. The entire peninsula was hit by the İzmit earthquake on August 17, 1999 that occurred along the western portion of the North Anatolian Fault Zone. Armutlu Peninsula Armutlu Peninsula () is a peninsula extending westward into Marmara Sea in the Anatolian section of Turkey. In addition to Yalova Province, parts of Kocaeli Province and Bursa Province are on the peninsula. Armutlu Peninsula is between Gulf of Izmit in
Anatolian languages which distinguishes masculine and feminine; instead, it exhibits a noun-class system based upon an older animate/inanimate distinction. It should be noted, however, that the masculine/feminine distinction is still a matter of dispute since there are some, such Robert S. P. Beekes, who doubt that the feminine gender originated in PIE. Anatolian languages The Anatolian languages are an extinct family of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia), the best attested of them being the Hittite language. The list below gives the Anatolian languages in a relatively flat arrangement, following a summary of the Anatolian family tree by