Afyonkarahisar Castle
| Afyonkarahisar Castle | ||
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 Afyonkarahisar Castle Hill |
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| Alternative name (s): | Afyon Kalesi | |
| Creation time : | late 2nd millennium BC Chr. | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone / cuboid | |
| Place: | Afyonkarahisar | |
| Geographical location | 38 ° 45 '24 " N , 30 ° 31' 54" E | |
| Height: | 1260 m | |
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The castle of Afyonkarahisar ( Turkish : Afyonkarahisar Kalesi) is a fortification built around 1350 BC by the Hittites in Afyonkarahisar in Turkey . It stands on a 226 m high rock massif.
The fortress is thought to be identical to the Hittite Hapanuwa , which belonged to the Arzawa lands and was built in the 14th century BC. Was occupied by Muršili II . A settlement in Phrygian times is also documented. Under the name Akroinos , the city and fortress belonged to Pergamon , later to the Roman Empire and from 395 AD to Byzantium . The Seljuks , who conquered the city in the 12th century, expanded the fortress considerably, and from 1428 it belonged to the Ottoman Empire .
literature
- Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaur's cultural guide in color Turkey . Droemer-Knaur, 1987, ISBN 3-426-26293-2
Individual evidence
- ^ John Garstang, Oliver Robert Gurney: The geography of the Hittite Empire . British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, 1959, p. 92
- ↑ Kurt A. Raaflaub, Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Beginnings of political thought in antiquity . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1993 ISBN 9783486559934 p. 118 at GoogleBooks