Gokbez (Bor)
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Niğde | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | boron | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 45 ' N , 34 ° 39' E | |||
| Height : | 1403 m | |||
| Residents : | 327 (2012) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 388 | |||
| Postal code : | 51700 | |||
| License plate : | 51 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2013) | ||||
| Muhtar : | Saim Erbil | |||
Gökbez is a village in the district of Bor the Turkish province of Nigde . The place is about 18 kilometers southeast of the district town Bor and 22 kilometers south of the provincial capital Niğde .
In ancient times, a connecting road ran through the mountainous landscape of Gökbez from Tyana , today's Kemerhisar , to Faustinopolis and the Cilician Gate . There is a late Hittite rock relief in the village , and three inscribed grave pillars were found. Two of them are in the Niğde Archaeological Museum .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). accessed October 28, 2013
- ↑ Dietrich Berges, Johannes Nollé: Tyana - Archaeological-historical investigations to the south-western Cappadocia . Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2000 ISBN 3-7749-2959-9 pp. 234-237