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Kayseri (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 43 56 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.7322 decimal degrees |
| Long: 035 29 07 E degrees minutes |
Long: 35.4853 decimal degrees |
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Note: Former home of Cappadocian kings; sacked by Armenian king Tigranes I 1st cen. BC; taken by Mongols 1243; main city of Turkmen Ertanid principality 1300s; transferred to Ottomans (1397), who were defeated by Tamerlane 1402; retaken by Ottoman Selim I 1515. |
Names: |
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| Kayseri (preferred,C,V)
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............ | renamed by Seljuq Turks after their capture of city, ca. 1080 |
| Kaiseria (C,O)
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| Kaisaria (C,O)
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| Casarea (C,V)
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| Céarée (C,V)
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| Césarée (C,V)
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| Kaisarie (C,V)
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| Kaisarije (C,V)
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| Kaīzarie (C,V)
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| Qaisariye (C,V)
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| Caesarea (H,V)
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| Caesarea Cappadociae (H,V)
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............ | renamed early 1st cen. |
| Eusebeia (H,V)
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| Mazaca (H,V)
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............ | originally |
| Mazaka (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Kayseri (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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Erciyes University founded 1978 |
| market center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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