Uşaklı Höyük
ancient settlement mound in Sorgun District
Usakli Hoyuk (also known as Kusakli, Kusachakly, Uçaklı) is located at Büyüktaslik Village in the district of Sorgun, Yozgat Province, Turkey, to the north of Mount Kerkenes. It was an important Hittite city that flourished in the second millennium BC, and was identified as a possible location of the ancient city of Zippalanda, the centre of the cult of the Storm God.
Description
The settlement consists of a high mound with a slightly sloping large terrace. The central mound is about 2 hectares, and the whole settlement covers an area of 10 hectares. It is located on the southern bank of Egri Öz river, in the northern part of a large, fertile plain. It is two days' walk (about 40 km) from there to the Hittite capital Hattuša.
This site should not be confused with Kuşaklı Höyük in Sivas Province, Turkey.
History
The settlement started at the end of the 3rd millennium BC, and continued through the Middle to the Late Bronze Ages, which witnessed the greatest urban development of the site. There was also the Iron Age occupation continuing to the late Roman and Byzantine eras.
Recent excavations have been focused on four excavation areas.
“Uşaklı Höyük” enters the record as ancient settlement mound in Sorgun District. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Uşaklı, Höyük and ancient can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114635661. Authority coordinates are 39.813, 35.053. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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