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Hattusa
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Hattusa

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
1199 BC
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
40.020, 34.615
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: Хаттуса, Хаттусас или Хаттуш — столица древнего Хеттского царства.

History

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near to modern Boğazkale, Turkey, within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River.

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