Present history traces the Angora goat to the vilayet of Angora, in Asia
Minor, and to the country immediately surrounding this vilayet. Some
have set a date over two thousand years ago, claiming that the Angora
goat was introduced into Asia Minor at that time, but the only authentic
history is that given by Tournefort, a French naturalist, employed by
his government, who explored Asia Minor about two hundred and fifty
years ago, and who described and pictured the Angora goat about as he
appears to-day and by Evliya Effendi, a Turk, who wrote in 1550 of the
goats, and by a few other writers. That they have not changed more is
due to the fact that the Turk is quite content as he is, and he has no
ambition to breed a different goat from what he has had for at least the
past three centuries.