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Kültepe, formerly known as Kanesh and Karum, was part of the network of trading settlements established in central Anatolia by Assyrian merchants from Ashur (northern Mesopotamia) in the early 2nd millennium BCE. This period was called the “Assyrian Trading Colonies Period“.
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Raddato, C. (2019, April 06). Kültepe Ruins. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10413/kultepe-ruins/
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