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Places tagged “early” in Turkey · Mysteria

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Places tagged “early” in Turkey

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🇹🇷 Turkey

🇹🇷 Turkey · Cemetery

Horoztepe

Early Bronze Age (c.2800–2300 BCE; cemetery c.2400 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian Early Bronze (Alacahöyük-Horoztepe horizon)

Extra-mural Early Bronze princely cemetery (2400 BCE) with Alaca-like bronzes at Erbaa.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Karataş-Semayük

Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian

Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Tekor Basilica — Early 5th Century Triple Basilica Shirak

Early Christian (5th c. c.478–480 CE inscription Prince Sahak Kamsarakan) · Early Armenian (Kamsarakan princes, pre-Bagratid, Sassanian period Armenian Christianity)

Tekor excavated by Thierry 1970s, 5th-c Armenian inscription 478 authentic.