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The Kiiltepe texts, the oldest written sources which shed light on the ancient history of Anatolia, contain hundreds of geographical names. These names have been classified in various ways and one has tried to identify and when possible localize the towns and cities on the basis of similarity to our identity with geographical names known from the Hittite period and even, when possible, of the classical times. Linguistic arguments also have been used, in so far as the lexical roots, suffixes and prefixes of the names are considered to be at home in a particular linguistic area, which would mean nearness to the known or presumed centres of these areas.