İsmet İnönü Boulevard (Ankara) İsmet İnönü Boulevard (Ankara) İsmet İnönü Boulevard (a.k.a. "Eskişehir Boulevard") is a busy boulevard in Ankara, Turkey. The boulevard is named after İsmet İnönü, the second president of Turkey and one of the pioneers of the Turkish War of Independence. The easternmost point of the boulevard is at where it intersects Atatürk Boulevard. The westernmost point is at where it intersects Mevlana Boulevard and fuses to , the Turkish state highway which connects Ankara to western Anatolia. Between these two points the length of the boulevard is about . Ankara being the capital of Turkey, has many governmental offices most
History of Ankara form of "Ankara". In 278 BC, the city, along with the rest of central Anatolia, was occupied by the Celtic speaking Galatians, who were the first to make Ankara one of their main tribal centres, the headquarters of the Tectosage tribe. Other centres were Pessinos, modern Balhisar, for the Trocmi tribe; and "Tavium", to the east of Ankara, for the Tolstibogii tribe. The city was then known as Ancyra. The Celtic element was probably relatively small in numbers; a warrior aristocracy which ruled over Phrygian-speaking peasants. However, the Celtic language continued to spoken in Galatia for many centuries. At the