Beycesultan

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).

Last modified Dec 10, 2024 09:32 AM — History

An ancient Anatolian settlement occupied from the Late Chalcolithic period through the Bronze Age.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56861725

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.2566789757, 29.7011939085

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Beycesultan (3000 BC - 1750 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Beycesultan makes connections with:

Less than certain: Beycesultan part of (administrative) Walma (1750 BC - 1200 BC)

Beycesultan receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

Mellaart 1954

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Beycesultan (Q4081181)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Beycesultan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56861725> [accessed: 14 February 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56861725 |title=Places: 56861725 (Beycesultan) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=February 14, 2026 8:38 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Noah Kaye says:

Jan 05, 2023 03:32 PM

The Luwian petty kingdom of Walma is associated with Beycesultan:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/West-Anatolian-sites-superimposed-on-a-GIS-generated-map-reflecting-slope-degree-rather_fig4_327285664

https://luwianstudies.org/middle-and-late-bronze-age-western-asia-minor-a-status-report/