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Kirikkale... Kirikkale is a recent province of Türkiye. It is expanding rapidly to become an industrial center. Its location is on a crossroads, east of Ankara, on a major highway running to the east and to the Black Sea region. Kirikkale is a rapidly expanding industrial center on the major highway that leads east out of Ankara and to the Black Sea. The Kizilirmak River, known in ancient times as Halys, passes by Kirikkale. Nearby the river, you can spend a pleasant afternoon relaxing in one of the good restaurants surrounded by the pastoral landscape, and visit the restful Celal Bayar Park. In Kirikkale, the Gun Museum displays the different types of guns that are made in Kirikkale's gun factories. The central Anatolian plateau, ochre-hued, cleft by ravines and dominated by volcanic peaks, forms the heartland of Türkiye. Covered with wheat fields and outlined with ranks of poplars the boldly contoured steppe has a solitary majesty. This plateau was one of the cradles of human civilization. At Catalhöyük, remains of settlements from as early as the eighth millennium BC have been unearthed. The homeland of many people and the historic battleground of East and West, here the Hattis, Hittites, Phrygians, Galataians, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans all fought for their sovereignty and established their rule. In the 11th century the migrating Turks from the east made the plateau their own. During its turbulent history, Central Anatolia has endured invasion by great conquerors such as Alexander the Great and Tamerlane. In the course of ten millennia of habitation, the denizens of the area have reflected in their art - from the vigorous paintings of Catalhöyük and the confident lines of Seljuk architecture, to, more recently, the impressive modern form of Atatürk's mausoleum - the dramatic contours of the surrounding landscape. Kirikkale is a rapidly expanding industrial center on the major highway that leads east out of Ankara and to the Black Sea. The Kizilirmak River, known in ancient times as Halys, passes by Kirikkale. Nearby the river, you can spend a pleasant afternoon relaxing in one of the good restaurants, surrounded by the pastoral landscape, and visit the restful Celal Bayar Park . In Kirikkale, the Gun Museum displays the different types of guns that are made in Kirikkale's gun factories. After the highway divides, the eastern fork leads to Yozgat, 217 km from Ankara. Founded in the 18th century by the Ottomans, the city has two important buildings from this period - the Capanoglu Mosque and the adjoining Suleyman Bey Mosque.

The 19^th century Nizamoglu Mansion, an attractive example of Turkish domestic architecture, now houses ethnographical exhibits. Camlik National Park is a few kilometers south of the city.