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Writing | Asia Minor | Asia Minor | Mesopotamia | Aegean Koine
I. City, archaeological
Capital of the Hittites in central Asia Minor near Boğazkale (earlier Boğazköy), province Çorum, c. 150 km east of Ankara, Turkey. Sporadically settled since the Chalcolithic (6th millennium BC), Ḫ. was the location of an Assyrian trading colony (kārum; Kaneš) next to a native Hatti settlement in the 19th/18th cents. BC. The city was des…