Hattusa
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near modern Boğazkale, Turkey within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: capital of Hittite empire
- Also known as: “Hattuşa”, “Ḫattuša”, “Hattusas”, and “Hattusha”
Photo: Balkanique, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Green stone and Yazılıkaya.
Green stone
Stone
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hattusa Green Stone is a roughly cubic block of what is believed to be nephrite standing in the remains of the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittites in the late Bronze Age.
Yazılıkaya
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yazılıkaya was a sanctuary of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire, today in the Çorum Province, Turkey. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art, and these are generally regarded as the most important group. Yazılıkaya is situated 1½ km northeast of Hattusa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yekbas and Yazır.
Yekbas
Suburb
Yekbas is a neighbourhood of the town Boğazkale, Boğazkale District, Çorum Province, Turkey. Its population is 834. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Yekbas is situated 3½ km north of Hattusa.
Yazır
Village
Yazır is a village in the Boğazkale District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 97. Yazır is situated 3½ km southwest of Hattusa.
Karakeçili
Village
Karakeçili is a village in the Boğazkale District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 126. Karakeçili is situated 4 km west of Hattusa.
Hattusa
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Boğazkale, Çorum Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Hattusa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሐቱሳሽ”
- Arabic: “حتوساس”
- Arabic: “حتوشاش”
- Arabic: “خاتوشا”
- Armenian: “Խաթթուսա”
- Armenian: “Հատտուսա”
- Azerbaijani: “Hattuşa”
- Azerbaijani: “Hattuşaş”
- Azerbaijani: “Xattusa”
- Bashkir: “Хаттуса”
- Basque: “Hattusa”
- Basque: “Hattusas”
- Belarusian: “Хатуса”
- Bengali: “হাট্টুসা”
- Bosnian: “Hatuša”
- Breton: “Hattusha”
- Bulgarian: “Хатуша”
- Bulgarian: “Хатушаш”
- Catalan: “Hattusa”
- Catalan: “Hattuša”
- Catalan: “Hattusas”
- Catalan: “Hattush”
- Catalan: “Hattusha”
- Central Kurdish: “خاتوشا”
- Chinese: “吐哈什”
- Chinese: “哈吐沙”
- Chinese: “哈图撒斯”
- Chinese: “哈图斯”
- Chinese: “哈图沙”
- Chinese: “哈图沙什”
- Chinese: “哈图萨”
- Chinese: “哈图萨斯”
- Chinese: “哈圖沙”
- Chinese: “汉土沙”
- Chinese: “汉梯沙”
- Chinese: “波伽兹科易”
- Croatian: “Hattusa”
- Croatian: “Hattuša”
- Croatian: “Hatuša”
- Czech: “Chattušaš”
- Czech: “Chatušaš”
- Czech: “Hattusa”
- Czech: “Hattušaš”
- Czech: “Hatušaš”
- Danish: “Hattusas”
- Dutch: “Hapissa”
- Dutch: “Hattusa”
- Dutch: “Hattusas”
- Dutch: “Hattusha”
- Dutch: “Hattussa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حتوساس”
- Esperanto: “Hatuŝa”
- Faroese: “Hattusha”
- Finnish: “Hattuša”
- French: “Bogâzköy”
- French: “Hattousa”
- French: “Hattuhsa”
- French: “Hattusa”
- French: “Hattusha”
- Galician: “Boğazköy”
- Galician: “Hattusa”
- Galician: “Ḫattuša”
- Galician: “Hattusas”
- Galician: “Hattusha”
- Georgian: “ხათუსა”
- German: “Hattusa”
- German: “Hattuša”
- German: “Hattuşa”
- German: “Ḫattuša”
- German: “Hattuscha”
- German: “Hatuscha”
- Greek: “Χαττούσα”
- Hebrew: “בועזכוי”
- Hebrew: “חתושה”
- Hebrew: “חתושש”
- Hindi: “हत्तुसा”
- Hungarian: “Hattuszasz”
- Indonesian: “Hattusa”
- Irish: “Hattusa”
- Italian: “Hattuš”
- Italian: “Hattusa”
- Italian: “Hattuŝa”
- Italian: “Hattuša”
- Italian: “Ḫattuša”
- Italian: “Hattusas”
- Italian: “Hattusha”
- Italian: “Khattush”
- Japanese: “ハツサ”
- Japanese: “ハットゥサ”
- Japanese: “ハットゥシャ”
- Japanese: “ハットサ”
- Javanese: “Hattusa”
- Kazakh: “Xattwşa”
- Kazakh: “Хаттуша”
- Kazakh: “حاتتۋشا”
- Kirghiz: “Хаттусас”
- Korean: “하투사”
- Korean: “하투샤”
- Kotava: “Hattusa”
- Kurdish: “Hattûşaş”
- Latvian: “Hatušaša”
- Lithuanian: “Hatuša”
- Lithuanian: “Hatušas”
- Macedonian: “Хатуша”
- Malay: “Hattusa”
- Maltese: “Hattusa”
- Maltese: “Hattusas”
- Maltese: “Hattusha”
- Nepali: “हत्तुसस”
- Nepali: “हिट्टिटेस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hattusa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hattusas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hattusa”
- Norwegian: “Hattusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hattusa”
- Persian: “خاتوشا”
- Polish: “Hattusa”
- Polish: “Hattusas”
- Polish: “Hattusza”
- Portuguese: “Hattusa”
- Portuguese: “Hattusas”
- Portuguese: “Hattusha”
- Portuguese: “Hatusa”
- Romanian: “Hattușa”
- Russian: “Богазкёй”
- Russian: “Хаттус”
- Russian: “Хаттуса”
- Russian: “Хаттусас”
- Russian: “Хаттуш”
- Russian: “Хаттушаш”
- Russian: “Хатусса”
- Russian: “Хатушша”
- Scots: “Hattusa”
- Serbian: “Hatuša”
- Serbian: “Хатуша”
- Serbian: “Хатушаш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hattusa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hattuša”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hattusas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hattushash”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hatuša”
- Slovak: “Chattušaš”
- Slovak: “Hattusha”
- Slovenian: “Hatuša”
- South Azerbaijani: “خاتوشا(هاتوشا-چاتوشا-هاتوشاش)”
- South Azerbaijani: “خاتوشا”
- Spanish: “Hattusa”
- Spanish: “Hattuša”
- Spanish: “Hattusas”
- Spanish: “Hattushash”
- Spanish: “Khattusha”
- Swedish: “Bogazköy”
- Swedish: “Boğazköy”
- Swedish: “Hattusa”
- Swedish: “Hattusas”
- Swedish: “Hattusha”
- Tamil: “அத்துசா”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ḫattusa”
- Turkish: “Hattusa”
- Turkish: “Hattuşa”
- Turkish: “Ḫattuša”
- Turkish: “Hattuşaş”
- Ukrainian: “Хаттуса”
- Urdu: “ہاتوسا”
- Uzbek: “Xattusa”
- Vietnamese: “Hattusa”
- Wu Chinese: “哈图沙”
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