Hattusa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 28, 2023 10:57 AM
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History
tags:
extant remains,
UWHS
The Late Bronze Age capital of the Hittite empire (near modern Boğazkale in Turkey). The site was enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/283602441
40.0149132097, 34.6171576225
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Boğazkale (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Hattuşaş (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Boğazkale (Bogazkale: Turkish, modern)
- Boğazköy, Boghazköy (Bogazkoy: Turkish, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Ḫattuša (Hattusa: Hittite, 2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Hattuşaş (Turkish, modern)
- Hattusa connection Asia Minor (unspecified date range)
- Büyükkale located at Hattusa (unspecified date range)
- Lower city at Hattusa part of (analytical) Hattusa (1750 BC - 1200 BC)
- So-called Temple 1 at Hattusa located at Hattusa (unspecified date range)
- Temple district at Hattusa located at Hattusa (unspecified date range)
- Yazılıkaya (Hattusa) located at Hattusa (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Hattusa is the former capital of the Hittite empire, a Bronze Age civilization of Anatolia. The site is noted for its remarkable architecture and for its urban layout. Occupied as early as the sixth millennium BC, the site was eventually abandoned ca. 1200 BC.
Jeffrey Becker, Néhémie Strupler, Max Gander, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Hattusa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/283602441> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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