Kaman-Kalehöyük, the Glossary
Kaman-Kalehöyük is a multi-period archaeological site in Kırşehir Province, Turkey, around 100 km south east of Ankara, 6 km east of the town center of Kaman.[1]
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20 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Ankara, Archaeological site, Bronze Age, Carbon steel, Elamite language, Hattusa, Iron Age, Kaman, Kırşehir, Karakeçili, Kırıkkale Province, Kırşehir Province, Metallurgy, Old Assyrian period, Ottoman Empire, Phrygians, Scythians, Sultanate of Rum, Tell (archaeology), Turkey.
- Archaeological sites in Central Anatolia
- Buildings and structures in Kırşehir Province
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Ankara
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).
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Archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Carbon steel
Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight.
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Elamite language
Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites.
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Hattusa
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
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Kaman, Kırşehir
Kaman, formerly known as Chnamane (Khomane), and Zama, is a town in Kırşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
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Karakeçili
Karakeçili is a town in Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
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Kırıkkale Province
Kırıkkale Province (Kırıkkale ili) is a province of Turkey.
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Kırşehir Province
Kırşehir Province (Kırşehir ili) is a province in central Turkey, forming part of the Central Anatolia Region.
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Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
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Old Assyrian period
The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Ushpia 2080 BC, and consolidated under Puzur-Ashur I 2025 BC to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state and empire after the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC, which marks the beginning of the succeeding Middle Assyrian period.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Phrygians
The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity.
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Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
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Sultanate of Rum
The Sultanate of Rûm was a culturally Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071).
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Tell (archaeology)
In archaeology a tell (borrowed into English from تَلّ,, "mound" or "small hill") is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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See also
Archaeological sites in Central Anatolia
- Çadır Höyük
- Çamlıbel tarlası
- Çatalhöyük
- Özkonak Underground City
- Acemhöyük
- Aksaray Stele
- Alişar Hüyük
- Alişar, Sorgun
- Ağırnas
- Binbirkilise
- Boncuklu Höyük
- Derinkuyu underground city
- Dorylaeum
- Gordion
- Kültepe
- Kaman-Kalehöyük
- Karaman
- Kayakapı
- Kayalıpınar, Yıldızeli
- Kaymakli Underground City
- Kayqubadiyya Palace
- Kayseri
- Kerkenes
- Kuşaklı (Sarissa)
- Laodicea Combusta
- Mazı Underground City
- Nevşehir
- Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia
- Temple of Augustus and Rome
- Trocmades
- Tyana
- Uşaklı Höyük
- Yanik Tepe
- Yazılı, Han
- Zengibar Castle
Buildings and structures in Kırşehir Province
- Üçayak Byzantine Church
- Kaman-Kalehöyük
- Kesikköprü
- Kesikköprü mine
- Kırşehir Museum
- Mokissos