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Yozgat | |||||
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Sahmuratli | |||||
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| Location: It lies 5 km west of the Sahmuratli Village, southeast of Yozgat. |
| Geography and Environment: It is a city built at a very high altitude (1500 m) on a granitic mountaintop on the northern end of the Cappadocia Plain, with skillfully erected fortifications on the sloping ridges. |
| Destruction Details: Due to the high number of illicit diggings the characteristics of the floor covers could not be identified [Summers 2007:16]. The area in which the city wall is located near the East Gate is being severely damaged [Baran 2014:78]. |
