A tell (ancient habitation mound) located northwest of the modern village of Oymaağaç,locally known as Höyük Tepe. This archaeological site has remains from the Hittite period and has been tentatively identified as the location of the Hittite city of Nerik (Nerikka) a Bronze Age settlement to the north of the Hittite capitals Hattusa and Sapinuwa. Tthe Hittite cuneiform sources prooved the site as one of the most important cult centres of the Storm God. In Roman Period, the settlement moved to the present Vezirköprü.
See:
- Nerik, in:Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia, Routledge 2013, p. 506.
- Mehmet Ali Yılmaz: Contributions to the Early Iron Age Problem in the Central Black Sea Region in Light of Vezirköprü/Oymaağaç Höyük Ceramics, in: Tuba-ar Dergisi 15, 2012, pp. 69-78
- Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Rainer Czihon: Vezirköprü/Oymaağaç Höyük-Nerik (?) Projesi, in: Anadolu'nun Zirvesinde Türk Arkeolojisinin 40 Yılı, Ankara 2014, pp.339-346