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Caesarea Hippodrome

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kayseri
  • geo:38.719604,35.485813
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000 /

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Annotations

The settlement of Mazaka – the ancient name of Kayseri – probably has a history that reaches back at least into the Colony Period.It became the regional centre of the major Persian satrapy of Katpatuka in the 6thc.!", and then a Hellenistic Polis (with the cognomen Eusebeia)1

See:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayseri
  2. Gojko Barjamovic,  ‘Kültepe after Kaneš,’ in F. Kulakoglu and C. Michel (eds) Proceedings of the 1st Kültepe International Meeting. (Kültepe International Meetings 1, Subartu 35). Brepols: Turnhout 2015,  pp. 233-242.
  3. Massimo Forlanini,  “Am mittleren Kızılırmak”, in: H. Otten, E. Akurgal, H. Ertem and A. Süel (eds),Hittite and Other  Anatolian and Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Sedat Alp. Ankara, pp. 171–179.

References

  1. G. Barjamovic, 2015, p. 233


Nearby

Kayseri Castle

Kayseri Castle, is a castle built in antiquity and first mentioned in a coin during the rule of Gordian III between 238 and 244 AD.

Kayseri, Archaeological Museum (1 km)

Kayseri, Archaeological Museum

Hippodrome of Caesarea-Mazaka) (2 km)

Circus (Caesarea/Mazaca)


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