Hattusa, capital of Hittite Empire, Corum - 2011

Hattusha is the capital of the Hittites in the Late Bronze Age. It is located in the county of Bogazkale, as it is called today, 82 km southwest of the provincial center of Corum. The city took place in the history scene as the capital of the Hittite Empire between the 17th and 13th centuries BC. Hattusha was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1986. Hattusas is located 4 km east of Bogazkale district in the southeast of Sungurlu district of Corum. Hattusha, the capital of the Hittite State, has made progress in the field of art and architecture. The word Hattusha comes from the word Hattus, the original name given by the Hatti people. Hattusha is spread over a very large area. During the excavations, 5 culture layers were found. Remains from the Hatti, Assyrian, Hittite, Phrygian, Galatian, Roman and Byzantine periods were found on these floors. The ruins consist of Lower City, Upper City, Big Castle (King's Castle), Yazilikaya. The northern part of Hattusas is called "Lower City", the southern part is called "Upper City". The French archaeologist Charles Texier discovered the ruins in Hattusa first. Excavations were initiated in 1893-1894, and after these excavations, in 1906, German Hugo Winckler and Thedor Makridi from the Istanbul Archeology Museum found a large Hittite archive written in cuneiform script. BC III in Hattusa. There are settlements since thousand. The settlements in this period were generally formed around Buyukkale. In the 19th and 18th centuries BC, settlements of the Age of Assyrian Trade Colonies are seen in the Lower City, and the name of the city was first found in written documents of this age. It is revealed from the inscriptions that Hattusha was destroyed by Anitta, the king of Kussara in the 18th century BC. After this date, Hattusha was resettled in 1700 BC and became the capital of the Hittite State in 1600 BC. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)