The Turkish Language

• Turkish is a Turkic language spoken by about 75 million people, primarily in Turkey.
• The modern Turkish language is based on the dialect of Istanbul.
• Turkish uses the Latin alphabet, which was introduced in 1928 as part of Atatürk's reforms.

About Parramatta

Parramatta's cultural tapestry spans over 229 years, providing a rich and compelling history for our burgeoning city's foundation and anticipated growth. Parramatta, founded by the British in 1788, the same year as Sydney, is the oldest inland European settlement in Australia and the economic capital of Greater Western Sydney. Since 2000, government agencies such as the New South Wales Police Force and Sydney Water have relocated to Parramatta from the centre of Sydney.

On Sunday 2 November 1788, Governor Phillip took a detachment of marines along with a surveyor and, in boats, made his way upriver to a location that he called The Crescent, a defensible hill curved round a river bend, now in Parramatta Park. As a settlement developed, Governor Phillip gave it the name "Rose Hill" after George Rose, Secretary for the British Treasury. In 1791 he changed the name to Parramatta, approximating the term used by the local Aboriginal people. A neighbouring suburb acquired the name Rose Hill.

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