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Karahüyük (Elbistan)
Karahüyük (Elbistan) (also known as Karahöyük, Karahoyuk) is a village of Elbistan district of Kahramanmaraş province of Turkey. It is located 169 km to the north from Kahramanmaraş city and 9 km northwest from the Elbistan town. In 1947, an important Anatolian hieroglyphic inscription stele was discovered near the village. This stele is believed to be from the 12th century BC. The plain of Elbistan shares some history with Arslantepe (Melid). It is believed that Elbistan came under the control of Melid sometime around the 12th century BC. The Malatya group of the Neo-Hittite Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions have been studied by scholars. They come from the area of Karahöyük, and are believed to be very ancient. Archaeological excavations have also been conducted at Hamza Tepe, which is in the same area, 10 km northwest of Elbistan town, and to the west of Karahöyük. An ancient cremation cemetery from the Middle Iron Age (8th-7th centuries BC) has been discovered there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türkmen-Karahöyük
Türkmen-Karahöyük is an archaeological site in Turkey located in the Konya plain. It is situated on a large hill north of the village of the same name. The ancient name of the place is unknown. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Çatalhöyük is located only about twenty kilometers to the west of Türkmen-Karahöyük. Archaeology The archaeological significance of the site was first identified in 2017 during a survey of the mound. James F. Osborne therefore started the Türkmen-Karajöyük Intensive Survey Project (TISP) in 2018, and the site was examined in more detail in the summer of 2019. The area of the mound and its surroundings were systematically examined for ceramic shards and other artifacts and statistically evaluated. Based on the ceramics found, and an inscription in hieroglyphic Luwian language script, it was shown that the site was important from the Bronze Age to antiquity. Location The Konya plain was a well-watered and fertile region in ancient times, and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbistan
Elbistan (;Aksüt, Ali"''On the Alevism of Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinozu and Afsin - Elbistan Nurhak Ekinözü Afşin Aleviliği Üzerine - Zum Alevitentum in Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinözü und Afşin''"- Alevilik-Bektaşilik Araştırmaları Dergisi 2017 (No.15), pp.264-265, 27doi:10.24082/abked.2017.15.011/ref> ; (Al-Bustan) ) is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,201 km2, and its population is 141,307 (2022). Etymology The name "Elbistan" was pronounced similarly in Byzantine and Islamic sources. Elbistan was known as Plasta and Plastentia () in antiquity. Elbistan was known as ''Ablasta'' () according to Armenian historians in the early 11th century. According to Baldric of Dol the city was known as ''"Ablistan"'' till 15th century. Egyptian-Mamluk historian Muhammad ibn Iyas wrote the city's name as ''"Albistan"''. Alaüddevle Bozkurt Bey from Dulkadirids used the name ''"Elbistan"'' in the official documents. After Dulkadirids were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahramanmaraş Province
Kahramanmaraş Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 14,520 km2, and its population is 1,177,436 (2022). Its provincial capital is the city of Kahramanmaraş, and the Turkish car number plates#Location codes, traffic code is 46. In 2023, Its Pazarcık and Elbistan districts were home to the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes causing major damage to the city with 50K+ deaths. Geography Making up 1.83 % of Turkey's land area, Kahramanmaraş is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude. The majority of the province with around 60% of the total area is covered with mountains, being followed by plateaus and plains. Most of the mountains in the province is part of the Southeastern Taurus Mountains, Taurus Mountain range. Due to the low tree line most of the highest areas are bare, but lower regions have forests. Southern parts of the province has a hot-summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahramanmaraş
Kahramanmaraş (), historically Marash (; ) and Germanicea (), is a city in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean region of Turkey and the administrative centre of Kahramanmaraş Province, Kahramanmaraş province. After 1973, Maraş was officially named Kahramanmaraş with the prefix ''kahraman'' (Turkish word meaning "heroic") to commemorate the Battle of Marash. The city lies on a plain at the foot of Mount Ahır. On 6 February 2023, much of the city was destroyed in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes which had their epicentre in Pazarcık and Elbistan in Kahramanmaraş province. Geography The city center is 568 meters above sea level. Ceyhan River, which originates from the mountains surrounding Elbistan, Elbistan Plain is the most important hydrological feature in the city. Climate Kahramanmaraş has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification, Köppen: ''Csa'', Trewartha climate classification, Trewartha: ''Cs'') with Continental climate, contine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatolian Hieroglyphic
Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications. They are typologically similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but do not derive graphically from that script, and they are not known to have played the sacred role of hieroglyphs in Egypt. There is no demonstrable connection to Hittite cuneiform. History Individual Anatolian hieroglyphs are attested from the second and early first millennia BC across Anatolia and into modern Syria. A biconvex bronze personal seal was found in the Troy VIIb level (later half of the 12th century BC) inscribed with Luwian Hieroglyphs. The earliest examples occur on personal seals, but these consist only of names, titles, and auspicious signs, and it is not certain that they represent language. Most actual tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arslantepe
Arslantepe, also known as Melid, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been identified with the modern archaeological site of Arslantepe near Malatya, Turkey. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Arslantepe Mound on 26 July 2021. Değirmentepe, a site located 24 km northeast of Melid, is notable as the location of the earliest secure evidence of copper smelting. The site was built on a small natural outcrop in the flood plain about 40m from the Euphrates River. History Late Chalcolithic The earliest habitation at the site dates back to the Chalcolithic period. Arslantepe (VII; LC 3-4): It became important in this region in the Late Chalcolithic. A monumental area with a huge mudbrick building stood on top of a mound. This large building had wall decorations; its function is uncertain. Arslantepe (VIA; LC 5): By the late Uruk period development had grown to include a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hittites
The Hittites () were an Anatolian peoples, Anatolian Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in modern-day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC. The Hittites formed a series of Polity, polities in north-central Anatolia, including the kingdom of Kussara (before 1750 BC), the Kültepe, Kanesh or Nesha Kingdom (–1650 BC), and an empire centered on their capital, Hattusa (around 1650 BC). Known in modern times as the Hittite Empire, it reached its peak during the mid-14th century BC under Šuppiluliuma I, when it encompassed most of Anatolia and parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, bordering the rival empires of the Hurri-Mitanni and Assyrians. Between the 15th and 13th centuries BC, the Hittites were one of the dominant powers of the Near East, coming into conflict with the New Kingdom of Egypt, the Middle Assyrian Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maraş Lion
The Maraş lion is a Neo-Hittite, Late Hittite sculpture of a lion with a Luwian hieroglyphs, hieroglyphic inscription. It was discovered on the citadel of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş) in 1883 and is displayed in the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum. John David Hawkins assigned it the name ''Maraş 1'', while Winfried Orthmann used ''Maraş B/1''. Massive sculptures of lions are a recurrent feature of Hittite art, especially in the Neo-Hittite period. Discovery The lion statue was discovered in 1883 by Carl Humann and Otto Puchstein on their Anatolian travels in the castle of ''Marʿasch'' (modern Kahramanmaraş). A second, uninscribed lion which was slightly larger was left ''in situ'' by one of the fortress gates, while the inscribed lion was taken to the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Archaeological Museum in Istanbul. A plaster cast was produced for the Berlin Museums. After many years, the lion was transferred to the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum on 30 Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
