Yazılıkaya
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Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, also called Midas City, is a village with Phrygian ruins.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Yazılıkaya
- Ancient site.image
- Yazilikaya Kammer A.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Yazılıkaya
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.location
- Çorum Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Anatolia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Çorum Province
- Area
- 1.8
- Image
- Chamber A, Yazilikaya 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Yazılıkaya
- fabrication method
- rock relief
- culture
- Hatti
- inception
- 1300-00-00
- native label
- Yazılıkaya
- located in/on physical feature
- Black Sea Region
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Encyclopedic overview
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Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, also called Midas City, is a village with Phrygian ruins.
Yazılıkaya () was a sanctuary of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire, today in the Çorum Province, Turkey. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art, and these are generally regarded as the most important group.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yazılıkaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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