Eflatun Pinar: The Hittite Spring Sanctuary
Permanent Delegation of Türkiye to UNESCO · UNESCO World Heritage Centre · 2014
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HistoryHistory of BeyşehirThe Beyşehir basin preserves a long sequence of settlement, water management and political change, from Neolithic mounds to the modern district.PrehistoryBronze Age Beyşehir basinSettlement surveys and Hittite monuments show several distinct Bronze Age histories around the lake.AntiquityEflatunpınarEflatunpınar is a Late Bronze Age Hittite spring sanctuary near Beyşehir, where relief sculpture and water form one architectural setting.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu MosqueEşrefoğlu Mosque is Beyşehir’s late thirteenth-century timber-columned congregational mosque and a UNESCO World Heritage component.AntiquityThe Hittite horizon of BeyşehirEflatunpınar and Fasıllar place the Beyşehir basin within the monumental landscape of the Late Bronze Age Hittite world.