Karaabalar İkizce Dolmeni
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Karaabalar İkizce Dolmeni is a dolmen in Kofçaz district, Turkey. It lies at 42.0571° N, 27.2836° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Karaabalar İkizce Dolmeni
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Thrace, the region of south-eastern Europe divided today between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, has its own dolmen tradition. In Turkey, dolmens occur in Eastern Thrace, in the regions of Lalapasa and Süloğlu in the province of Edirne and of Kofçaz, Kırklareli and Demirköy in the province of Kırklareli. In Bulgaria there are interesting dolmens in the regions of the Sakar, Rhodope and Strandzha mountains. Strandzha, a mountain massif in south-eastern Bulgaria and European Turkey, was inhabited by the Thracians in antiquity and has a large concentration of ruins of Thracian sanctuaries, sacrificial altars and dolmens. The regional background, “Thracian and Anatolian dolmens”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Turkey are generally dated 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE).
Setting
62 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (1 within 1 km, 32 within 5 km), 15 of them of the same type. The site belongs to a dense concentration of monuments. In Kofçaz district, Turkey, 23 of the 77 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Karaabalar Petre Hill Tumulus (0.6 km west, megalithic mound); Karaabalar Molla İbrahim Korusu Tümülüsü (1.4 km west, megalithic mound); Karaabalar Yeşil Kapak Dolmeni (1.6 km north, dolmen); Karaabalar Kayacık Sırtı Dolmeni (1.8 km south, dolmen).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Thracian and Anatolian dolmens
Thrace, the region of south-eastern Europe divided today between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, has its own dolmen tradition. In Turkey, dolmens occur in Eastern Thrace, in the regions of Lalapasa and Süloğlu in the province of Edirne and of Kofçaz, Kırklareli and Demirköy in the province of Kırklareli. In Bulgaria there are interesting dolmens in the regions of the Sakar, Rhodope and Strandzha mountains. Strandzha, a mountain massif in south-eastern Bulgaria and European Turkey, was inhabited by the Thracians in antiquity and has a large concentration of ruins of Thracian sanctuaries, sacrificial altars and dolmens.
The dolmen itself is a single-chamber megalithic tomb, in which upright stones support a capstone, and it was often covered by a mound. Excavation evidence is scarce, so the Atlas records them with broad ranges and does not claim that a particular tribe built a particular dolmen.
Because they are in wooded hills away from towns, many of these monuments are still being discovered and described, and the Atlas lists only those that were published.
Dolmens in Thrace are one strand of the region's rock monuments, which also include rock-cut sanctuaries and tombs. They are described in the articles on Thracian rock sanctuaries and on rock-cut tombs.
When visiting, remember that parts of the border areas are restricted, and check local rules and access before you go. Look for the slabs of the chamber, the capstone, and any trace of a covering mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Strandzha, Wikipedia: List of dolmens · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Turkey; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE).Source for this date
Where it stands
Turkey
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 42°03′26″ N, 27°17′01″ EFor a GPS or map app: 42.05709, 27.28363
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Karaabalar Petre Hill Tumulus700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Karaabalar Molla İbrahim Korusu Tümülüsü700–50 BCE
- DolmenKaraabalar Yeşil Kapak Dolmeni4000–3000 BCE
- DolmenKaraabalar Kayacık Sırtı Dolmeni4000–3000 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Karaabalar Ağaçsızhöyük Tumulus700–50 BCE
- DolmenKaraabalar Şerif Hocanın Pınarı Sırtı Dolmeni4000–3000 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Karaabalar Kruşova Tumulus700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Karaabalar Bandit Tumulus700–50 BCE
Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q139431066wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Karaabalar Petre Hill Tumulus0.6 km W
- Karaabalar Molla İbrahim Korusu Tümülüsü1.4 km W
- Karaabalar Yeşil Kapak Dolmeni1.6 km N
- Karaabalar Kayacık Sırtı Dolmeni1.8 km S
- Karaabalar Ağaçsızhöyük Tumulus1.8 km NE
- Karaabalar Şerif Hocanın Pınarı Sırtı Dolmeni2.1 km SW
- Karaabalar Kruşova Tumulus2.2 km SE
- Karaabalar Bandit Tumulus2.3 km W
- Karaabalar Şarlak Dolmeni2.5 km N
- Çağlayık Çamlığı Tumulus 12.8 km SE
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Wikidata Q139431066CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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