HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2008 · 33 citations · 0 references
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At the beginning of the IInd millennium BCE, inhabitants from the Assur city-state, on the Tigris, organized large scale commercial exchange with Anatolia: they exported tin and textiles in Central Anatolia and brought back gold and silver. They settled down in forty Anatolian localities, in karum and wabartum; their main settlement being at Kültepe, near Kayseri, in Turkey, the place of the ancient Kanis.