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Didyma Temple of Apollo
Hellenistic to Roman 313 BCE–558 CE · Greek (Milesian) and Roman Imperial
Giant unfinished oracle temple with 19.7 m columns and Sacred Way to Miletus.
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Hellenistic to Roman 313 BCE–558 CE · Greek (Milesian) and Roman Imperial
Giant unfinished oracle temple with 19.7 m columns and Sacred Way to Miletus.
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Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
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EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
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Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
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Neolithic to Iron; Amuq A-B emphasis · Amuq A/B Neolithic → Ubaid → EBA → Iron Syro-Hittite
Amuq A Neolithic type mound (18 ha) — earliest Amuq painted village (c.6000 BCE) through Iron, defining northern Levantine Neolithic base.
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Archaic Dorian to Hellenistic (600 BCE – 100 BCE) · Dorian Knidians with Triopian league
Apollo Karneios doric 6×11 on double-harbour terrace of Triopian Dorian expansion city.
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Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB Levantine (Amuq F–G)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB Levantine (Amuq F–G) tell at Kilis Province – eb hamlet on basalt ridge south of oylum (dims Mound 100×80 m, 6 m EB).
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Hellenistic to Roman (220 BCE – 300 CE) · Ionian Magnesians under Hermogenes
190 m stadium and palaestra 500 m east of Leukophryene Artemis temple.
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Hellenistic to Roman (200 BCE – 250 CE) · Seleucid foundation to Rhodian to Roman Karian
Largest Hekate temple 8×11 with Gigantomachy frieze linked via 9 km Sacred Way to city.
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Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · Hurrian → Mittanian → Neo-Assyrian
Nusaybin palatial tell 13 m high (Mitanni–Assyrian palace, Nuzi ware, tablets) on Tigris watershed.
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EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
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Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
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Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
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Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 400 CE) · Karian–Ionian Iasians with Athenian attachment
Harbour hill temple atop agora overlooking double harbours and garum vats.
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Hekatomnid to Roman (351 BCE – 300 CE) · Hekatomnid Karian to Roman Mylasa
Mountain Zeus sanctuary 680 m with Maussollian androns on sacred way from Milas.
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Chalcolithic to Ottoman (peak Neo-Hittite to Roman) · Kura-Araxes → Neo-Hittite → Achaemenid → Commagenean → Roman
Capital mound of Commagene (Samosata) on a Euphrates meander, now island in Atatürk Reservoir. Pre-dam excavations revea...
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Archaic to Roman (600 BCE – 250 CE) · Milesian Greek to Hellenistic Seleucid to Roman
Eastern hypaethral adyton with sacred spring and stadium of Branchidae oracle.
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Hellenistic (300–150 BCE) foundation over Archaic · Hellenistic Lysimachan Heracleans with Karian memory
Athena peripteros 6×11 on cyclopean walled acropolis above Bafa Lake Endymion heroon.
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Hellenistic to Roman Hadrianic (200 BCE – 200 CE) · Karian to Roman Asia Euromian
Best-preserved Corinthian Zeus temple 6×11 with 17 standing columns at Milas plain.
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Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
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Hellenistic to Roman 283 BCE–3rd c. CE · Greek (Attalid) and Roman
Attalid citadel with world's steepest theater and Altar of Zeus frieze.
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Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian to Ionian Notians
Necropolis-agora with painted tombs and Apollo sacred way 600 m from temple.
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Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Pulur Höyük (Erzincan) — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzincan Province.
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Late Antiquity / Byzantine 532–537 CE, Ottoman additions 1453– · Byzantine Greek to Ottoman Islamic
Justinian's 537 CE dome on pendentives – seminal Byzantine basilica-monsoon turned mosque.
