Kerkenes News - Haberler
The
Kerkenes Dag is a low granitic mountain in central Turkey
(map).
It has been identified with the sacred Hittite Mount
Daha. The city is the largest pre-Hellenistic site known on the
Anatolian Plateau,
covering 2.5 square kilometres, enclosed by 7 km of strong defensive
wall which can be seen from space (image).
It is now
thought that the city was probably founded towards the middle of the
seventh century BC, it is highly probable that it was the place that
Herodotus called Pteria. If this identification is correct it would
have fallen under the hegemony of the Medes by 585 BC.
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