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  • Kültepe

  • 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.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Kültepe
    by Klaus-Peter Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Kültepe

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2014

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Turkey

    Kayseri

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    Fourth Millennium BC

    Chalcolithic

    Hittite + Hurrian + Assyrian + Roman

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    Hittite & Assyrian Monuments

     

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