Karadağ

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Karadağ
Landsat image of the Karadağ

Landsat image of the Karadağ

height 2288  m
location Karaman , Turkey
Mountains Taurus Mountains
Coordinates 37 ° 23 '58 "  N , 33 ° 8' 49"  E Coordinates: 37 ° 23 '58 "  N , 33 ° 8' 49"  E
Karadağ (Turkey)
Karadağ
Type Extinct shield volcano
rock Andesite , dacite

The Karadağ ( German  Black Mountain ) is a mountain range in the Turkish province of Karaman , about 25 km north of the provincial capital Karaman . It is an extinct shield volcano and measures about 15 km in north-south and west-east direction. Its crater has a diameter of about 2000 m. Its three main peaks are the Mihalıç (also Mahalıç) Tepesi and the Baştepe. The Mihalıç Tepesi in the south is the highest elevation at 2288 m.

On the north side of the villages of Madenşehri, Üçkuyu and Değle is the Binbirkilise region ( German  1001 churches ) with numerous Byzantine church ruins. On the summit of Mihalıç Tepesi, below a Byzantine church ruin, there are two Hittite inscriptions in Luwian hieroglyphics , which Gertrude Bell and William Mitchell Ramsay discovered in 1907. On Kızıldağ, about 15 km northwest of it, there are walls, a staircase, on the western slope a throne-like rock formation with a rock relief Hartapus and other inscriptions, all probably under Hartapu , who describes himself in inscriptions as the great king, in the eighth century BC. Created shortly after the end of the Hittite empire in the 12th century BC, according to other research. Chr.

On the Mihalıç Tepesi there is also a broadcasting station of the Turkish TV station TRT . Since the Byzantine ruins, including the two inscriptions, are now on military grounds, they are no longer accessible.

The groove erosion, which can often be observed in Turkey, was probably built over by cultivated terraces on the slopes of the Karadağ in Byzantine times and took place a second time after the abandonment of the towns of Binbirkilise.

  • Karadağ massif from the south

  • Ruins in Madenşehri (Binbirkilise)

  • Church ruins on the Mihalıç Tepesi

Web links

Commons : Karadağ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karaman - Karadağ
  2. ↑ Turkey map of the Geography Faculty of Ankara University ( Memento from July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ W. Orthmann: Karadağ in Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner, Dietz Otto Edzard: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie , Walter de Gruyter, 1980 p. 402 ISBN 9783110071924 at GoogleBooks
  4. ^ Charles Allen Burney: Historical Dictionary of the Hittites . Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8108-4936-4 , pp. 145 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Dorn: Turkey - Central Anatolia: between Phrygia, Ankara and Cappadocia . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2006, p. 267f, ISBN 978-3770166169 ( on GoogleBooks )
  6. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth , Volker Höhfeld : Turkey . Scientific Book Society Darmstadt 2002, p. 50f. ISBN 3534137124