Boğazkale

Boğazkale

Boğazkale is a district of Çorum province. Boğazkale, which bears traces of the Chalcolithic period in its history, has its earliest settlement dating back to 5000 BC. Boğazkale, which includes the ancient city of Hattuşaş in the 17th and 13th centuries BC, 4 km east of the district, took its place in history as the capital of the Hittite Empire. Yazılıkaya, the magnificent open-air temple of Hattusa in Boğazkale district, where there are ruins from the Hatti, Assyrian, Hittite, Phrygian, Galatian, Roman and Byzantine periods, is one of the important historical places of the district. Dölarslans, one of the nobles who came to the region after the collapse of the Dulkadiroğulları Principality, had a mansion complex built in Boğazkale in 1664. The municipality organization was established on September 6, 1966 in the settlement, whose name was Boğazköy in the early years of the Republican period and later changed to Boğazkale in 1936,[3] It was separated from Sungurlu in 1987 and became a district.