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  • Karatepe

    Karatepe is a late Hittite fortress and open-air museum in Osmaniye Province in southern Turkey. It is situated in the Taurus Mountains, on the right bank of the Ceyhan River. The site is contained within Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park (Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum).
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Karatepe-Aslantaş Archaeological Site.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Karatepe
    by Klaus-Peter Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 168 m

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    Karatepe

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2020

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    Castles and Fortresses

    Location

    Turkey

    Osmaniye Province

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    Second Millennium BC

    Hittite

    Syro-Hittite

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    Hittite Monuments

     

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