Bayat is a village in the district of Bor the Turkish province of Nigde . It is located about 20 kilometers west of Bor and 30 kilometers west of the provincial capital Niğde . The connecting road from Bor to Altunhisar , with which Bayat is connected by a country road, runs about five kilometers northeast of the town . On this road, about three kilometers northeast of Bayat, lies the settlement hill Kınık Höyük , which was inhabited from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages and contains the remains of a citadel from the late Hittite period.
