Tillya Tepe
Tillya tepe, Tillia tepe or Tillā tapa is an archaeological site in the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan near Sheberghan, excavated in 1978 by a Soviet-Afghan team led by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi.Photo: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yemshi Tepe.
Yemshi Tepe
Archaeological site
Yemshi Tepe, also Emchi-Tepe or Imshik, is an ancient circular fortress in Afghanistan, 5 kilometers to the northeast of the city of Sheberghan. It is about 100 kilometers west of Balkh, the capital of ancient Bactria. Yemshi Tepe is situated 1¼ km north of Tillya Tepe.
Tillya Tepe
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sheberghan, Jowzjan, Northwest Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.69466° or 36° 41′ 41″ northLongitude
65.78961° or 65° 47′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8J87MQVQ+VROpenStreetMap ID
way 958870304OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1144126
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Uzbek—“Tillya Tepe” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “টিলিয়া টিপ”
- Catalan: “Tilia tepe”
- Catalan: “Tillā tapa”
- Catalan: “Tillia tepe”
- Catalan: “Tillya tepe”
- Chinese: “蒂拉丘地”
- Dutch: “Tilya Tepe”
- French: “Tilia tepe”
- French: “Tilla tapa”
- French: “Tillia tepe”
- French: “Tillya tepe”
- German: “Tilla Tepe”
- German: “Tillja Tepe”
- German: “Tillya Tepe”
- Greek: “Τίλια Τεπέ”
- Hebrew: “טילה טפה”
- Italian: “Tilla tepe”
- Italian: “Tillia Tepe”
- Japanese: “ティッラー・テペ遺跡”
- Japanese: “ティッリャ・テぺ”
- Japanese: “ティッリャ・テペ”
- Japanese: “ティリヤ・テペ”
- Korean: “틸리아 테페”
- Latvian: “Tiļatepe”
- Malayalam: “ടില്ല്യ ടെപെ”
- Persian: “پایگاه باستانی طلاتپه”
- Persian: “طلا تپه”
- Persian: “طلاتپه”
- Persian: “طلای باختری”
- Pushto: “طلا تپه”
- Russian: “Тилля-тепе”
- Russian: “Тилля-Тепе”
- Slovenian: “Tilja Tepe”
- Spanish: “Tillia tepe”
- Spanish: “Tillia Tepe”
- Swedish: “Tillya tepe”
- Tamil: “டில்யா மலை”
- Ukrainian: “Тилля-тепе”
- Ukrainian: “Тілля-Тепе”
- Uzbek: “Tillatepa”
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