Aizanoi

With the decision of the Superior Council of Immovable Antiquities and Monuments numbered 8854 dated December 20, 1975, Aizanoi Ancient City was initially recognized as an archaeological monument. The boundaries of the 1st and 3rd degree archaeological sites were established by a decision of the relevant Conservation Council dated 1989 and numbered 488. Following that, the Conservation Council decided in 2011 to register the rural settlement area within the first degree archeological site as an urban archeological site.

The related Conservation Council approved the conservation plan for the 3rd degree archeological site in 1993. In the year 2000, it was revised and authorized. In 2011, the associated conservation council adopted the conservation plan for the 1st archeological site and the urban archeological site.

D. Krencker and M. Schede, on behalf of the German Archeological Institute, began scientific excavations within Aizanoi in 1926, and the excavations are now being carried out by Pamukkale University.

Location: Çavdarhisar, Kütahya Province, Turkey.