For example, the monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe were built by hunters and gatherers a thousand years before the development of agriculture.

A temple area in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe dated to 10000 BC has been seen as the beginning of the " Neolithic 1 " culture.

An early temple area in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe dated to 10, 000 BCE may be regarded as the beginning of the Neolithic 1.

( See Göbekli Tepe for older, buried religious structures.

The earliest dwellings in Bulgaria-the Stara Zagora Neolithic dwellings-date from 6, 000 BC and are the oldest man-made structures yet discovered, second only to the Göbekli Tepe sanctuary in Asian Turkey.

Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, 2011

* c. 9500 BC ; First building phase of the temple complex at Göbekli Tepe.

The story of Mesopotamian architecture begins in southeastern Turkey with the erection of large monoliths at the site of Göbekli Tepe.

* Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, ca.

Other sites with terrazzo floors include Nevali Cori, Göbekli Tepe, Jericho, and Kastros ( Cyprus ).

* Göbekli Tepe – The world's oldest known temple, dated 10th millennium BC ( ca 11, 500 years ago ).

* Göbekli Tepe

Large circular structures involving carved megalithic orthostats are a typical feature, e. g. at Nevali Cori and Göbekli Tepe.

At Göbekli Tepe four stone circles have been excavated from an estimated 20.

* Göbekli Tepe

* Göbekli Tepe, in German

Some archaeologists suggest, based on ongoing excavations of a temple complex at Göbekli Tepe (" Potbelly Hill ") in southern Turkey, dating from c. 11, 500 years ago, that religion predated the Agricultural Revolution rather than following in its wake, as had generally been assumed.

Göbekli Tepe (" Potbelly Hill ") is a Neolithic hilltop sanctuary erected at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, some northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa ( formerly Urfa / Edessa ).

Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, 2011

Göbekli Tepe is located in southeastern Turkey.

Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known man-made religious structure.

Few humanoid figures have surfaced at Göbekli Tepe, but they include the engraving of a naked woman posed frontally in a crouched position that Schmidt likens to the Venus accueillante figures found in Neolithic north Africa, and a decapitated corpse surrounded by vultures in bas-relief.

Together with the site of Göbekli Tepe, it has revolutionised scientific understanding of the Eurasian Neolithic.

Parallels are known from Cayönü and Göbekli Tepe.

Monolithic pillars similar to those at Göbekli Tepe were built into its dry stone walls, its interior contained two free-standing pillars of 3 m height.

Similar structures are only known from Göbekli Tepe so far.

Comparable material has been found at Göbekli Tepe.

* sites in ' Upper Mesopotamia ' include Çayönü and Göbekli Tepe.

The third ridge, known to the Anzacs as " Gun Ridge " and the Ottomans as Topçuluk Sirt ( Artillery Ridge ), because of some artillery emplacements that were located there, stretched from Gaba Tepe to the main range at Chunuk Bair, above Battleship Hill.

Nuzi ( or Nuzu ; Akkadian Gasur ; modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq ) was an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Al Ta ' amim Governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river.

For the purposes of the offensive the Western Front HQ was located on Koca Tepe hill, some 15 km south of Kara Hisâr, very close to the battle lines.

The fighting concentrated around Scimitar Hill which protruded northwards from the Anafarta Spur and dominated the southern approach to the Tekke Tepe ridge.

While the cove was relatively sheltered from shellfire from across the peninsula — the Chanak forts, as well as the Turkish battleships Turgut Reis and Barbaros Hayreddin anchored in the Dardanelles, shelled the waters off the cove — it was partially exposed to view from Gaba Tepe to the south and completely open to view from Nibrunesi Point at the southern tip of Suvla Bay to the north.

Willmer constructed three strong points ; one on Kiretch Tepe to the north, one on Hill 10 in the centre and one on Chocolate Hill, near the southern end of the salt lake that lay behind the beach.

Recent findings narrow the first domestication of wheat down to a small region of southeastern Turkey, and domesticated Einkorn wheat at Nevalı Çori — northwest of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey — has been dated to 9, 000 B. C.

The oldest known sphinx was found near Gobekli Tepe at another site, Nevali Çori, or possibly 120 miles to the east at Kortik Tepe, Turkey, and was dated to 9, 500 BC.

When Braidwood later tried to resume his research plan in the Fertile Crescent, the difficulties he encountered in Iran, where he was digging in Tepe Asyab, took him to Turkey in 1963.

On the night of 30 April / 1 May 1915 at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, Turkey, Lance-Corporal Parker, a volunteer stretcher-bearer, went out with a party of NCOs and men to take ammunition, water and medical stores to an isolated trench containing about 40 men and several wounded.

Tushan has been identified with the modern Ziyaret Tepe (), Diyarbakir Province, Turkey.

The site of Liman Tepe, which lies near an old harbour contains very important Bronze Age excavations, the most prominent and remarkable of which is the amount of varying archaic burial sites, as well as evidence of the practises associated with them close by.

There is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Vitus, built by Alfred Tepe in 1880.

The Turkish equivalent of Thyateira is Tepe Mezarlığı, meaning hill graveyard.

Ahal is known for the Geok Tepe battle of 1881, today the site of an imposing new mosque, and for the Baharden underground warm lake ( in the Kov Ata karst cave ), both west of Ashgabat.

The province is the location of Tepe Hajji Firuz, site of some of the world's earliest evidence of wine production.

The best-known period in the history of Yorghan Tepe is by far one of the city of Nuzi in the 15th-14th centuries BC.

It is run by Tepe Akfen Ventures Airport Holding ( TAV ).

Akhisar, the ancient city of Thyatira, was one of the seven churches of the Book of Revelation and the remains of the ancient city is found in part of the city called Tepe Mezarlığı ( hill cemetery ).

Hasanlu Tepe is the largest site in the Gadar River valley and dominates the small plain known as Solduz.

This is best attested at the site of Dinkha Tepe, but is also present at Hasanlu.

Takab (; Azeri: تیکان تپه ، Kurdish: تکاو ; and ; also Romanized as Takāb ; also known as Takan Tepe ) is a city in and the capital of Takab County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.