Old Assyrian Empire to place the settlement along the southern bend of the Kızılırmak River. Alişar Hüyük, which has also been suggested as a location, is an archeological site near the present-day village of Alişar. Alişar Hüyük was occupied from the Copper Age (c. 5000 BC — c. 3300 BC) then well into the Bronze Age (c. 3300 BC – c. 1200 BC.) A number of Hittite-era cuneiform tablets written in the Old Assyrian cuneiform script of the Cappadocia-type have been found here. Mention in those tablets of “Ankuwa” has caused speculation that the archaeological site is the Ankuwa mentioned in other Hittite
Eudocia (Cappadocia) Eudocia (Cappadocia) Although William Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography" (1854) said that the "Synecdemus" of Hierocles mentions four towns in Asia Minor called Eudocia (), including one in Cappadocia, the text of the "Synecdemus" as edited by Gustav Parthey in 1866 mentions no town of that name or of any similar name among the Cappadocian towns. Smith also said that the town had formerly belonged to the Anatolian Theme but Leo VI incorporated it into Cappadocia. The "Synecdemus" was composed, under Justinian (527–565), before 535, three and a half centuries before the time of Leo VI, who reigned