Samuha

City of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire

Site Id: 480
Locality: Sivas
Address: Kayali Pinar, Sivas, Turkey
Coordinates: 39.614444, 36.517222
Period: Bronze Age

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Attribution: Ingeborg Simon, with CC BY-SA 3.0 license, original file:Stele_Kayal%C4%B1p%C4%B1nar_04.jpg

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Šamuḫa is an ancient settlement near the village of Kayalı Pinar, c. 40 km west of Sivas, in the Sivas Province of Turkey. Located on the northern bank of Kizil Irmak river, it was a city of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire. Samuha's faith was syncretistic. Rene Lebrun in 1976 called Samuha the "religious foyer of the Hittite Empire". More on Wikipedia

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Attribution: Ingeborg Simon, with CC BY-SA 3.0 license, original file:Stele_Kayal%C4%B1p%C4%B1nar_04.jpg

Maps of Samuha archeological site, located in Sivas, Türkiye.

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