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Location:

  • Türkiye, Emirhalil
  • geo:40.539993,34.27652
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -2000? /

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=54940

Annotations

Durmitta/Turmitta known from both Assyrian and Hittite text was an Assyrian colony. There were kings palace and karum.

See:

  1. 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. pp. 241-267
  2. idem: ‘A Commercial Geography of Anatolia,’ in L. Ullmann and M. Weeden (eds) Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill. 2017, p. 312
  3. idem:  The geography of trade Assyrian colonies in Anatolia c. 1975-1725 BC and the study of early interregional networks of exchange, PIHANS CXI, 2008, pp.91 – 98
  4. Joost Blasweiler, The cities Turmitta and Wahšušana along the banks of the Kizilirmak? in: The kingdom of Purušhanda and its relations with the kings of Mari and Kanesh in the 18th century BCE, Arnhem 2019

Nearby

Tišmurnu (3 km)

Site unidentified as yet.

Tümbek Tepe (8 km)

Eaarly Bronze age settlement.

Sitma Tepe (9 km)

Sıtma Tepe Mevkii. EBA.


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