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The New Mithraeum Database

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Filtering by Country: Turkey gave 81 results.

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Doliche (Dülük)

Dülük is a village in Şehitkamil district, a district of Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Antiochia ad Orontem (Antakya)

Antioch was the capital of Roman Syria and gateway between the Mediterranean and the eastern provinces.

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Nemrut Dağı (Adıyaman)

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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Tyana (Tyana)

Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Pessinus (Ballıhisar)

Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.

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Caesarea (Kayseri)

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

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Castrum Zerzevan (Diyarbakır's Çınar)

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.

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VOLKAN ÖZLEK

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Anazarbus (Dilekkaya)

Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.

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Zeugma (Belkıs)

Zeugma was an ancient Hellenistic era Greek and then Roman city of Commagene; located in modern Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

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Samosata (Samsat)

Samsat, formerly Samosata is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river.

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Tauroctony relief from Belkıs

A marble tauroctony discovered in the military quarter of ancient Zeugma, providing the first known evidence for the cult of Mithras at the city.

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Amorium (Hisarköy)

Amorium, also known as Amorion, was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838.

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Ariaramneia

A settlement of Cappadocia located within the inland communications network of central Anatolia during the imperial period.

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Iconium (Konya)

Iconium, modern Konya, became one of the principal urban centres of Lycaonia and an important crossroads of central Anatolia.

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Trapezus (Trabzon)

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

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Ḫattuša (Boğazkale)

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.

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