Alaca Höyük
Alacahöyük or Alaca Höyük is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site. It is situated near the village of Alacahüyük in the Alaca District of Çorum Province, Turkey, northeast of Boğazkale, where the ancient capital city Hattusa of the Hittite Empire was situated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient Hittite site in northern Turkey
- Also known as: “Alacahöyük”, “Alacahueyuek Milli Parki”, and “Alacahüyük Milli Parkı”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alacahüyük and Küçükkeşlik.
Alacahüyük
Village
Alacahüyük is a village in the Alaca District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 250. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a township.
Küçükkeşlik
Village
Küçükkeşlik is a village in the Alaca District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 60. Küçükkeşlik is situated 5 km northwest of Alaca Höyük.
Mahmudiye
Village
Mahmudiye, formerly Karahisar, is a village in the Alaca District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 102. The village is predominantly populated by ethnic Circassians from the Abdzakh tribe. Mahmudiye is situated 5 km north of Alaca Höyük.
Alaca Höyük
- Categories: archaeological site, tell, park, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Alaca İlçesi, Çorum Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.23455° or 40° 14′ 4″ northLongitude
34.69505° or 34° 41′ 42″ eastElevation
1,131 metres (3,711 feet)Open location code
8GGP6MMW+R2OpenStreetMap ID
way 171691586OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=moundOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Alaca Höyük” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألاجا هويوك”
- Azerbaijani: “Alacahöyük”
- Basque: “Alaça Hüyük”
- Basque: “Alacahöyük”
- Bulgarian: “Аладжа-Хююк”
- Catalan: “Alaca Höyük”
- Cebuano: “Alacahüyük Milli Parkı”
- Dutch: “Alaca Höyük”
- Dutch: “Alacahoyuk”
- Dutch: “Alacahöyük”
- Finnish: “Alaca Hüyük”
- Finnish: “Alaça Hüyük”
- Finnish: “Alacahöyük”
- French: “Alaca Höyük”
- French: “Alaca Hüyük”
- French: “Alacahoyuk”
- French: “Alacahöyük”
- French: “AlacaHöyük”
- French: “Alacahüyük”
- German: “Alaca Höyük”
- German: “Alaca Hüyük”
- German: “Alacahöyük”
- Hebrew: “אלג’הויוק”
- Hungarian: “Alaca Höyük”
- Hungarian: “Alaca Hüyük”
- Indonesian: “Alaca Höyük”
- Italian: “Alaca Höyük”
- Italian: “Alacahöyük”
- Japanese: “アラジャ・ホユック”
- Japanese: “アラジャホユック”
- Japanese: “アラジャホユック遺跡”
- Korean: “알라카회위크”
- Korean: “알리샤르 회위크”
- Korean: “알리샤르 휘위크”
- Mongolian: “Алажа Хююк”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alaca Hüyük”
- Norwegian: “Alaca Höyük”
- Persian: “آلاجههویوق”
- Persian: “آلاکا هیوک”
- Russian: “Аладжа-Гуюк”
- Russian: “Аладжа-Хуюк”
- Russian: “Аладжа-Хююк”
- Russian: “Аладжахёюк”
- Russian: “Алака-Хююк”
- Spanish: “Alaca Höyük”
- Spanish: “Alaca Huyuk”
- Spanish: “Alacahoyuk”
- Spanish: “Alacahöyük”
- Swedish: “Alaca Höyük”
- Turkish: “Alaca Höyük”
- Turkish: “Alacahöyük”
- Turkish: “Arinna”
- Ukrainian: “Аладжа-Хююк”
- Urdu: “آلاجا ہوئیوک”
- Uzbek: “Alajaxyoyuk”
- Western Mari: “Аладжахӧйӱк”
- “Alacahoeyuek”
- “Alacahoyuk”
- “Alacahöyük”
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