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Kültepe
Kültepe or Kanesh is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey. The site inhabited continuously from the Chalcolithic to Roman times, flourished as an important Hattic, Hittite and Hurrian city, containing a large kārum (merchant colony) of the Old Assyrian Empire from 21st to 18th centuries BC.
The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Archaeological Site of Kültepe-Kanesh.by Klaus-Peter Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 1098 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2014
Fourth Millennium BC
Chalcolithic
Hittite + Hurrian + Assyrian + Roman
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