🧿 Šamuḫa

Šamuḫa is an ancient Bronze Age settlement. It was a city of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire. It has been proposed to have been at a site near the village of Kayalıpınar, Yıldızeli, c. 40 km west of Sivas, in the Sivas Province of Turkey. It is located on the northern bank of the Kizil Irmak river, which was called Marassanta by the Hittites and Halys during the classical era. Samuha's faith was syncretistic. Rene Lebrun in 1976 called Samuha the "religious foyer of the Hittite Empire".