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Kültepe

important Bronze Age administrative center in Turkey
Place ancient_city Q538605

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
ancient city, tell, archaeological site[4][5]
Country
Turkey[3]
Official website
www.kultepe.org.tr[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.850°, 35.633°
Affiliation
Museum Directorate of Kayseri[11]
Described by source
Pauly–Wissowa, Oxford Classical Dictionary[8][9]
Heritage designation
Tentative World Heritage Site[12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kayseri Province, Melikgazi district[1][2]
Located in/on physical feature
Central Anatolia Region[6]
Native label
Kültepe[13]
Replaced by
Anisa[10]
State of conservation
preserved[19]
Time period
prehistory, Old Hittite Kingdom, Old-Assyrian period[14][15][16]
World Heritage criteria
(ii), (iii)[17][18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nessa en Kaneš en Kanesh en Kaniš en Kültepe en Nesa en Nēša en Nesha en Anisa en Aniša en Anisha ar كولتبه de Kanesch de Kaniš de Anisa de Neša de Kültepe el Κουλτεπέ fa کول‌تپه، ترکیه he כרום כנש
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
147158672
GND ID
4110418-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
KültepeOberstadtPalast.jpg ↗
Arachne entity ID
4310922
De Agostini ID
Kaniš
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
22866
Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID
kultepe, kultepe_res-4b13a54a-8c60-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Kultepe
FactGrid item ID
St Fagans
Freebase ID
/m/0f78w
GeoNames ID
13731962
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2041372, 2127234
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Grove Art Online ID
T048249
IDAI.gazetteer ID
2043986
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
2033
Libris-URI
1zcfh2hk2970sv5
NL CR AUT ID
ge189078
OpenStreetMap way ID
13858887
Pleiades ID
58129442
SELIBR ID
230357
SVKKL authority ID
0439670-Kanes-zanikle-mesto
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
kanish
World Heritage Tentative List ID
5905

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
human settlement, archaeological site, tell
Described by source 2
Pauly–Wissowa, Oxford Classical Dictionary
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Kayseri Province, Melikgazi district
Affiliation 1
Museum Directorate of Kayseri
Country 1
Turkey
FactGrid item ID 1
St Fagans
Heritage designation 1
Tentative World Heritage Site
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Central Anatolia Region
People born here 1
Zuzzu
People who died here 1
Pithana
Time period 1
prehistory
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  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [9] ↑ . Oxford Classical Dictionary. wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Tlaloc1522 · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arachne entity ID → 4310922
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Arachne entity ID: 4310922"
  2. 1d ago · Tlaloc1522 · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GeoNames ID → 13731962
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ GeoNames ID: 13731962"
  3. 2d ago · Tlaloc1522 · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    IDAI.gazetteer ID → 2043986
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ IDAI.gazetteer ID: 2043986"
  4. 2d ago · Tlaloc1522 · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Time period → prehistory, Old Hittite Kingdom, Old-Assyrian period
    Wikidata description → important Bronze Age administrative center in Turkey
    Replaced by → Anisa
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Time period: Old-Assyrian period"
  5. 5w ago · JBradyK · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 36
    Wikipedia languages → ['am', 'ar', 'arz', 'be', 'br', 'ca', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', '
    Instance of → ancient city, tell, archaeological site
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: ancient city"
  6. 9w ago · ~2026-47014-95 · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'tr', 'text': 'Kültepe'}
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Native label: Kültepe"
  7. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47647|batch #47647]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  8. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Instance of → ancient city, tell, archaeological site
    Official website → http://www.kultepe.org.tr
    Heritage designation → Tentative World Heritage Site
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0439670-Kanes-zanikle-mesto, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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