Temple complexes in Turkey

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Notion (Notium) — Temple of Apollo at Claros Outpost

Classical to Late Antiquity (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian Greek (Kolophonian) and Roman

Kolophon harbour city with Doric Apollo temple facing mother city.

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Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Hellenistic to Roman (300 BCE–150 CE) · Lydian heritage, Seleucid, Attalid and Roman (Sardian polis)

Lydian capital's colossal Ionic Artemision 48×112 m, Hellenistic to Roman pseudodipteral.

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Outer Hattusa Temple Inner — Hattusa (60-47)

Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age

Outer Hattusa Temple Inner — Hattusa (60-47) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Bronze Age (regional) temple complex of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 BCE for temple and associated settlement.

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Royal Hattusa Platform I — Hattusa (60-07)

Classical (regional) · Classical

Royal Hattusa Platform I — Hattusa (60-07) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Classical (regional) temple complex of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 BCE for platform and associated settlement.

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Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Eastern Outlier

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Eastern Outlier in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

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Kolophon — Ancient Ionian City

Geometric to Hellenistic (1100–133 BCE) · Ionian Greek (Kolophonian)

Ionian interior capital 12-city league famed for cavalry and Claros oracle mother city.

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Temple of Zeus Olbios at Uzuncaburç (Olba-Diocaesarea)

Hellenistic to Early Roman (Seleucid to Julio-Claudian) · Isaurian–Cilician priest state, Seleucid and Roman Cilicia

Taurus priest-kingdom hilltop Corinthian Zeus temple 6×12 with Zeus lightning entablature, Olba.

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Smyrna Temple of Athena — Bayraklı (Old Smyrna)

Geometric to Archaic (Old Smyrna) · Ionian Greek (Aiolian foundation)

Bayraklı 630 BCE hekatompedon Athena with Aeolic capitals, earliest Ionian temple on Old Smyrna 8th BCE walls.

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Teos — Temple of Dionysus and Ancient City

Archaic to Late Antiquity (1000 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek and Roman / Artists of Dionysus guild

Hermogenes' canonical Dionysus temple 208 BCE — largest Dionysac sanctuary and theatre guild capital.

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Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos

Classical to Hellenistic (350–100 BCE peak) · Dorian Greek (Knidian polis)

Peninsula-tip Demeter terrace Doric prostylos with thesmophoria pits and Knidos double harbour.

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Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar in Muğla, Letoon, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

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Magnesia on the Maeander — Temple of Artemis Leukophryene

Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian/Ionian Greek and Roman (Pergamene)

Hermogenes' pseudodipteral Artemis temple 150 BCE — Vitruvian beautiful after Ephesus.

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Hyllarima Temple of Zeus Hyllos — Kavaklıdere Upland

Classical to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic

850-m Kavaklıdere upland Zeus Hyllos 2nd BCE prostylos with agora odeion, Chrysaoric League pastoral city.

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Xanthos-Letoon

Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Classical Lycian 6th–4th c. BCE and Roman) · Lycian (Anatolian Indo-European) → Persian satrapy → Hellenistic → Roman

Lycian capital Xanthos and marsh sanctuary Letoon — trilingual stele solved Lycian.

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Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)

Hellenistic Commagene (c.62 BCE under Antiochos I Theos) · Commagenian (Armenian/Greek/Persian syncretic) Hellenistic

Hierotheseion (tomb-sanctuary) of Antiochos I of Commagene (69–34 BCE), Nemrut Dağı tops 2,150 m peak with 50 m tumulus of crushed rock surrounded by three terraces bearing 8–10 m colossal seated…

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Sanctuary of Apollo at Claros — Southern Bay Complex

Late Classical to Roman (Hellenistic oracle peak) · Colophonian Greek under Persian and later Roman oracle administration

Claros oracular bay temple Ionic prostyle over sacred pool feeding chasm, oracle hydrology.

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Temple of Dionysus at Nysa on the Meander

Hellenistic to Roman (Mithridatic to Hadrianic) · Carian-Lydian Greek under Pergamene and Roman rule

Gorge-spanning double-city Dionysus temple 6×11 with vaulted bridge and library, Strabo's school.

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Priene — Temple of Athena Polias and Grid City

Late Classical to Hellenistic (350–133 BCE) with Roman upkeep to 600 CE · Ionian Greek (Milesian) and Hellenistic Attalid

Alexander-dedicated Athena temple 334 BCE by Pytheos and pristine Hippodamian grid city.

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Temple of Athena at Assos

Archaic (600–500 BCE) · Aeolian Greek under Lydian and later Persian rule (Assian polis)

Only Archaic Doric temple in Anatolia 530 BCE, sculpted architrave atop 238-m acropolis.

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Karahan Tepe Pillared Structure East Ridge — Western Terrace

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Karahan Tepe Pillared Structure East Ridge — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

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Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Western Terrace

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

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