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Anatolian plateau in winter from air. The Anatolian plateau (Turkish: Anadolu Platosu) is a plateau that occupies most of Turkey's surface area. [1] [2] The elevation of the plateau ranges from 600 metres (2,000 ft) in the west to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). [citation needed] Mount Erciyes near Kayseri, is the highest elevation at 3,917 metres ...
"The 2013 and 2014 Excavation Seasons at Çadir Höyük on the Anatolian North Central Plateau", Anatolica 41, pp. 87-123, 2015 Steadman, Sharon R., Gregory McMahon, and Jennifer C. Ross, "Chalcolithic, Iron Age, and Byzantine Investigations at Çadır Höyük: The 2017 and 2018 Seasons", In The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries (2017 ...
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, [a] is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey.It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north.
It is bounded by Turkey's Central Anatolia Region to the west; Turkey's Black Sea Region to the north; Turkey's Southeast Anatolia Region and Iraq to the south; and Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia to the east, where Eastern Anatolia overlaps and converges with the South Caucasus region and Lesser Caucasus mountain plateau.
The Anatolian Biogeographic Region covers the interior and east of Anatolia, and excludes the coastal areas along the Black Sea and Mediterranean. It includes the central Anatolian Plateau, the Pontic and Taurus mountains and northern Mesopotamia .
List of Mountains in Turkey; Name Altitude Mountain Range Coordinates Büyük Ağrı (Mount Ararat) : 5,137 m (16,854 ft) Ağrı (Armenian HighlandsGelyansın or Uludoruk (Reşko Tepesi)
Kerkenes (or Kerkenes Dağı; both names are modern) is the largest pre-Hellenistic site from the Anatolian Plateau – 7 km (4 mi) of strong stone defenses, pierced by seven gates, that enclose 2.5 km 2 (1.0 sq mi).
The Anatolian sub-plate [1] [2] is a continental tectonic plate that is separated from the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate by the North Anatolian Fault and the East Anatolian Fault respectively. Most of the country of Turkey is located on the Anatolian plate. [ 3 ]