<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up Türk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> The English name Turkey, now applied to the modern Republic of Turkey, is historically derived (via Old French Turquie) from the Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia . It is first recorded in Middle English (as Turkye, Torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, ca . 1369 . The Ottoman Empire was commonly referred to as Turkey or the Turkish Empire among its contemporaries . </P> <P> The English name of Turkey (from Medieval Latin Turchia / Turquia) means "land of the Turks". Middle English usage of Turkye is attested to in an early work by Chaucer called The Book of the Duchess (c. 1369). The phrase land of Torke is used in the 15th - century Digby Mysteries . Later usages can be found in the Dunbar poems, the 16th century Manipulus Vocabulorum ("Turkie, Tartaria") and Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (Turky). The modern spelling "Turkey" dates back to at least 1719 . </P> <P> The Turkish name Türkiye was adopted in 1923 under the influence of European usage . </P>

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