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Bozca

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Oct 29, 2020 07:12 AM — History

tags: ANE, Assyrian

A modern village in the Avanos district of Turkey's Nevşehir province. Bozca is one of the proposed locations of ancient *Atuna.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/222224043

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.7622881, 35.0095977

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Bozca (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Bozca makes connections with:

Uncertain: Bozca same as *Atuna (unspecified date range)

Bozca receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement-modern

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Bozça has been suggested as a possible location for ancient *Atuna.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Bozca: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/222224043> [accessed: 20 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/222224043 |title=Places: 222224043 (Bozca) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 20, 2025 1:06 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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