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Beycesultan () is an archaeological site in western Anatolia, located about 5 km southwest of the modern-day city of Çivril in the Denizli Province of Turkey. It lies in a bend of an old tributary of Büyük Menderes River (Maeander River), ==History== Beycesultan was occupied beginning in the Late Chalcolithic period. This large mound is almost 1 km in diameter and 25 m high. The settlement increased in size and prominence through the 3rd millennium, with notable religious and civil buildings.〔Jak Yakar, The Twin Shrines of Beycesultan, Anatolian Studies, vol. 24, pp. 151-161, 1974〕 Development peaked early in the 2nd millennium with the construction of a massive palace and associated structures. The palace was abandoned and then destroyed circa 1700 BC. To this point, the orientation of Beycesultan was strongly influenced from the west, mainly the Aegean and Crete. After a few centuries of semi-abandonment, Beycesultan began to rise again, this time more influenced by the Hittite regions of Anatolia. Though smaller than the earlier city, the site was of impressive size. This second flowering of Beycesultan was completely destroyed circa 1200 BC as were many locations in Anatolia at that time. 〔James Mellaart,The Second Millennium Chronology of Beycesultan, Anatolian Studies, vol. 20, pp. 55-67, 1970〕 The site was also the occupied, to a lesser scale, in the Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beycesultan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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