Ḥaḳala

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Enes Yılandiloğlu

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Mar 15, 2026 12:01 PM — History

A village in today's Amasya, Turkey. According to Mehmed Neşrî (Vol. 1, pp. 374-9 (1949)), Kara Devletşah, a commander in the Timurid Sultanate, stayed in this village and was defeated here or nearby by Bayezid I.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/73737781

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.7626901, 35.753532

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Yolpınar (AD 1300 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Yolpınar (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- حقل (Ḥaḳala: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)

Ḥaḳala makes connections with:

None

Ḥaḳala receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

References:

Evidence:

Neşrî (Unat/Köymen) 1st Volume, 374-5

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Enes Yılandiloğlu, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ḥaḳala: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/73737781> [accessed: 19 May 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

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