Spaleina was the settlement area on the foothills of the fortress. In Hitites Period, the settlement was called “Sallapa”. In 700 B.C. the settlement of Sallapa belongs to Phyrigians with the name of “Spalia” or “Spania”.
See:
- Kaan Gedik, Revealing the values attributed by the inhabitants in historic urban landscapes: the case of Sivrihisar, Eskişehir in Turkey, Thesis (M.Arch.) -- Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Architecture., Middle East Technical University, 2019.
- Adam Kryszen, Towards a Reconstruction of Hittite Geography - The Case of Sallapa, Palamedes 7, 2012