Osmaniye Karatepe

Karatepe tour. Karatepe, literally Black Hill, is a former Late Hittite fortress, currently an open-air museum. It is located in the province of Osmaniye in southern Turkey, in the Taurus Mountains, on the right bank of the Ceyhan River, at a distance of about 23 km from the city of Kadirli. The monument is part of the Karatepe-Arslantash National Park. There was also the ancient city of Cilicia, which controlled the passage from eastern Anatolia to the north of the Syrian plain.