Aktaş (Niğde)

	Aktaş
Basic data
Province (il) :	Niğde
District ( ilçe ) :	Niğde
Coordinates :	38 ° 2 ' N , 34 ° 46' E Coordinates: 38 ° 1 '36 " N , 34 ° 46' 12" E
Height :	1385 m
Residents :	2,210 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+90) 388
Postal code :	51 xxx
License plate :	51
Structure and administration (as of 2012)
Mayor :	Mehmet Şimşek

Aktaş ( Turkish White Rock , formerly Andaval, ancient name Andabilis) is a municipality in the central district of the Turkish province of Niğde .

Aktaş is located in the south of the district about ten kilometers northeast of the district and provincial capital Niğde, in the south of the Cappadocia countryside . The place is located on the western foothills of Mount Kösedilin Dağı .

The ruins of the former three-aisled Basilica of Constantine lie near Aktaş . The late Hittite stele of Andaval was found in it.

Individual evidence

^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 10, 2013
^ William John Hamilton : Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: with some account of their ... II. London 1842. p. 229 ; Gustav Hirschfeld : Andabalis . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2116.

[Infobox_Ort_in_der_Türkei.EinwohnerOrt-1] Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 10, 2013

[2] William John Hamilton : Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: with some account of their ... II. London 1842. p. 229 ; Gustav Hirschfeld : Andabalis . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2116.