you brought me some memoris,been 35 days in turkey in 1990. in kapadokia area for about a week and it still fresh in my mind,from nigde i went to yediguler up the mountains great place with wonderful people. love turkey very much
Cappadocia - History Prehistory The first signs of human presence date from the neolithic and the calcolithic periods. Indeed, hearths, statuettes and lithic tools made of volcanic glass or bone have been found.
The Hittites
Signs of human life have been discovered, dating from the bronze age and the Hittite period (3000-1750 BC). The soil contained gold, silver, copper but no tin. Exchange developed, with Assyrians from Mesopotamia who founded trading posts in the region. It has been established that writing existed in Cappadoce, thanks to Assyrian tablets on which you can read the different taxes paid by the traders to the Anatolian landowners, as well as the interests they received from their debtors. A new artistic trend appeared in Anatolia, as a result of cultural and religious influences from Mesopotamia.
In around 2000 BC, a people coming from Europe and passing through Caucasus settled in Anatolia. They integrated into native life. Their language was Indo-European and they were influenced by the native cultural and religious rituals. Their writing, in the shape of cuneiforms can be found on numerous plates. They progressively built an empire , Hatusas (today's Bogazköy). After 600 years of reign, they were defeated by the Phrygians and their empire was dismantled. Some Hittite strongholds remain in central and south-east Anatolia.
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