Boğazkale
Boğazkale is a village in the Central Karadeniz or Black Sea region of Turkey, with a population of 1200 in 2022. The reason to visit is the Hittite city of Hattusa, a UNESCO World Heritage site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 2,480 residents
- Description: district in Çorum Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Boğazköy”, “Boŋazköy Hattusa”, “Hatti”, “Hattusa”, “Hattusha”, “Khattusas”, and “Pteria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yazılıkaya and Green stone.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yekbas and Karakeçili.
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.
Karakeçili
Village
Karakeçili is a village in the Boğazkale District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 126.
Yazır
Village
Yazır is a village in the Boğazkale District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 97. Yazır is situated 3½ km south of Boğazkale.
Boğazkale
- Category: locality
- Location: Çorum Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.0215° or 40° 1′ 18″ northLongitude
34.6092° or 34° 36′ 33″ eastPopulation
2,480Elevation
1,013 metres (3,323 feet)Open location code
8GGP2JC5+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 149048411OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
750539Wikidata ID
Q848800
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Boğazkale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوغاز كوي”
- Armenian: “Բողազկալե”
- Asturian: “Boğazkale (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Boğazkale”
- Bavarian: “Boğazkale”
- Catalan: “Boğazkale”
- Catalan: “Hattusa”
- Cebuano: “Boğazkale İlçesi”
- Chechen: “БогӀазкале”
- Chinese: “Boğazkale”
- Chinese: “波格斯凱”
- Chinese: “波阿兹卡雷”
- Chinese: “波阿茲卡雷”
- Czech: “Boğazkale”
- Danish: “Hattusas”
- Dimli (individual language): “Boğazkale”
- Dutch: “Boğazkale”
- Dutch: “Hattusa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوجاز كوى”
- French: “Boğazkale”
- French: “Boğazköy”
- French: “Boghaz keui”
- French: “Hattousa”
- Galician: “Hattusa”
- German: “Bogazkale”
- German: “Boğazkale”
- German: “Boghazkale”
- German: “Boghazköi”
- German: “Boghazköy”
- German: “Hattuša”
- Hebrew: “בוגזקאלה”
- Hebrew: “בוגזקוי”
- Hebrew: “חתושש”
- Hittite: “Ḫattušaš”
- Hungarian: “Boğazkale”
- Irish: “Boğazkale”
- Italian: “Boğazkale”
- Italian: “Bogazköi”
- Italian: “Bogazkoy”
- Italian: “Boğazköy”
- Italian: “Boghazkale”
- Italian: “Boghazkoy”
- Italian: “Hattusa”
- Japanese: “ハットゥシャ”
- Japanese: “ボアズカレ”
- Japanese: “ボアズキョイ”
- Japanese: “ボガズキョイ”
- Korean: “보가즈쾨이”
- Korean: “보아즈칼레”
- Korean: “보아즈쾨이”
- Lithuanian: “Bohazkalė”
- Malay: “Boğazkale”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Boğazkale”
- Minangkabau: “Boğazköy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boğazkale”
- Norwegian: “Boğazkale”
- Persian: “بغازقلعه”
- Persian: “خاتوشا”
- Polish: “Boğazkale”
- Polish: “Bogazköy”
- Polish: “Hattusa”
- Portuguese: “Hattusa”
- Russian: “Богазкале”
- Russian: “Хаттуса”
- Serbian: “Богазкале”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boğazkale”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boghazkeui”
- Spanish: “Bogazkale”
- Spanish: “Boğazkale”
- Spanish: “Bogazköy”
- Spanish: “Boğazköy”
- Spanish: “Boghaz Keui”
- Spanish: “Hattusas”
- Swahili: “Boğazkale”
- Swedish: “Hattusa”
- Tatar: “Богазкале”
- Turkish: “Boğazkale, Çorum”
- Turkish: “Boğazkale”
- Turkish: “Boğazköy”
- Turkish: “Hattuşaş”
- Ukrainian: “Боґазкале”
- Urdu: “بوغاز قلعہ”
- Vietnamese: “Boğazkale”
- Western Mari: “Богазкале”
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