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Doliche
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Doliche

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
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Coordinates
37.152, 37.359
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: Ancient settlement, then hellenistic city at Keber Tepe hill, Duluk

History

Dülük, also known as Dolikhe or Doliche, or Tulupa, is an ancient city located in the Şehitkamil district of Gaziantep, in the neighborhood that bears the same name. Dülük is considered the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Turkey. Artifacts from the Copper Age have been discovered here, along with evidence of some of the earliest known mathematical calculations.

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