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Sign in to saveŠamuḫa is an ancient Bronze Age settlement near the village of Kayalıpınar, Yıldızeli, c. 40 km west of Sivas, in the Sivas Province of Turkey. It was a city of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire. It is located on the northern bank of the Kizil Irmak river, which was called Marassanta by the Hittites and Halys during the classical era. Samuha's faith was syncretistic. Rene Lebrun in 1976 called Samuha the "religious foyer of the Hittite Empire".
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Samuha
- Ancient site.image
- File:Kayalıpınar 01.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Settlement mound as seen from the west
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.location
- Sivas Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Anatolia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.cultures
- Hittite
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Middle Bronze
- Assyrian Trading Colony
- Late Bronze
- Hittite Period
- Tudhaliya III
- Hattusili III
- After Hittite Period
- Location
- Euphrates location theory
- Kayalipinar location
- Cuneiform texts
- See also
- References
Šamuḫa is an ancient Bronze Age settlement near the village of Kayalıpınar, Yıldızeli, c. 40 km west of Sivas, in the Sivas Province of Turkey. It was a city of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire. It is located on the northern bank of the Kizil Irmak river, which was called Marassanta by the Hittites and Halys during the classical era. Samuha's faith was syncretistic. Rene Lebrun in 1976 called Samuha the "religious foyer of the Hittite Empire".
== History == ===Middle Bronze=== ====Assyrian Trading Colony==== thumb|Map of ancient Anatolia during the Karum period, showing the location of Samuha