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ID: 7002552
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002552
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kültepe (deserted settlement)  Kültepe (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 44 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.7333  decimal degrees
Long: 035 34 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient city of Asia Minor; was important trade station on Assyrian border; was center of Kaneshite branch of the Hittites; thousands of tablets dating to the 2nd millennium BCE have been discovered here; local mines supplied Assyria with silver ca. 1900 BCE.

Names:
Kültepe (preferred,C,V,display)
Kultepe (C,V)
Kul Tepe (C,V)
Kanesh (H,V)
Kanes (H,V)
Kanish (H,V)
Nesa (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kayseri (province)  ............  Kayseri (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Kültepe (deserted settlement)  ................  Kültepe (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  inhabited since at least the 2nd mill. BC
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Kanes..........  [VP]
..............  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 574
Kanesh..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 346
Kanish..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 459
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 586
Kultepe..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 459
Kültepe..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
Kul Tepe..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Nesa..........  [VP]
...........  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 459
..................  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 574
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 346; 347
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 586
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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