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List of settlements. In the table below, only the settlements which have articles in this encyclopaedia are shown, with the exception of the following: A few ancient settlements are still in use (Adana, Amasya, Ankara, Istanbul, Tarsus etc.) These settlements are not included in the list unless separate articles for the ancient sites exist.
The site was first used at the dawn of the Southwest Asian Neolithic period, which marked the appearance of the oldest permanent human settlements anywhere in the world. Prehistorians link this Neolithic Revolution to the advent of agriculture, but disagree on whether farming caused people to settle down or vice versa. Göbekli Tepe, a ...
Boncuklu Höyük is a Neolithic archaeological site in Central Anatolia, Turkey, situated around 9 km from the more famous Çatalhöyük site. The tell is made up of the remains of one of the world's oldest villages, occupied between around 8300 to 7800 BCE. [1] [2] The buildings are small and oval shaped with walls constructed of mudbricks ...
Karahan Tepe. The ancient structures at Karahan Tepe were discovered in 1997 by "researchers near the Kargalı neighborhood in the Tek Tek Mountains National Park." [8]Necmi Karul, an archeologist at Istanbul University, told Anadolu Agency in 2019, “Last year, excavation work restarted in Karahan tepe [Kectepe] – around 60 km from where Göbekli tepe is located – and we encountered ...
Çukuriçi Höyük (Turkish: 'Mound in the Valley') is a prehistoric Tell settlement on the Aegean coast of western Turkey. It is located about 1 km southeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, near the present city of Selçuk in the province of İzmir. Between 2007 and 2016 the settlement was systematically investigated. [1]
Boncuklu Tarla was discovered in the district of Dargeçit in Mardin Province in 2008. [4] [5] The discovery was made during a prospecting dig near Ilisu dam. [4]The site underwent its first excavation in 2012 under the auspices of the Mardin Museum which was followed by a second excavation by Dr. Ergül Kodaş of the University of Mardin Artuklu in 2017 [4] [2] The temple found at Boncuklu ...
Ishak Pasha Palace near Doğubayazıt. Doğubayazıt (Kurdish: Bazîd; [2] Armenian: Պայազատ, romanized: Payazat or Դարոյնք, Daruynk) [3] is a town of Ağrı Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran. Its elevation is 1625 m. It is the seat of Doğubayazıt District. [4] Its population is 80,061 (2021). [1]
The eastern settlement forms a mound that would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation. There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age.