Tavà Âanlñ is a city in Kütahya Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Tavà Âanlñ District. Its population is 73,306 (2022).
Tavà Âanlñ is a typical Aegean town where a government-owned coal mine company attracted thousands of settlers from surrounding cities and villages.
The town is also famous for its notable number of jewellery shops and is also famous for popular snack called "leblebi" (roasted chick peas).
Tavà Âanlñ was told to be named after a hunting party held by the Ottoman prince Bayezid I, in which he is said to have hunted 7 rabbits. Thus the name Tavà Âanlñ meaning "the place with rabbits" was given to the area.
west of Kütahya lies the ancient town of Tavà Âanlñ with a notable 12th-century Seljuq mosque called Ulucami. to the north in a side valley of the Adronos stream stands a Phrygian rock monument Dikilitaà Â, a huge volcanic partly smoothed rock with geometric designs.
Tavà Âanlñ Höyük is a massive mound of more than 40 hectares, located in the centre of the Tavà Âanlñ Plain. It is the largest mound in this region, located near the Orhaneli river (). The settlement started during the Neolithic Period, but most of the remains belong to the Bronze Age.
The excavations here started in 2017, as part of the âÂÂPrehistoric Periods Survey of Eskià Âehir and Kütahya Provinces (EKAR)â project. They revealed that most of the mound occupation belongs to the Early Bronze Age II (2700-2400 BC), after which there was a great fire outbreak during the Early Bronze Age III period.
The mound contains remains from the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, and Early Iron Age. Early Bronze Age pottery is mostly concentrated on the eastern and north-eastern parts of the mound.
Tavà Âanlñ Höyük city building layout is somewhere in between the âÂÂAnatolian Settlement PlanâÂÂ, as defined by M. Korfmann, and the layout that was common in the coastal zone of Western Anatolia and in the Aegean Islands. But Tavsanli is actually somewhat closer to Inland Western Anatolia in this regard.
The âÂÂAnatolian Settlement Planâ also known as the âÂÂInland Western Anatolian Settlement Modelâ represents "an enclosed system where the houses open to a common courtyard facing each other, or where the backsides of the houses function as an enclosure wall." On the other hand, the Aegean-coastal settlements were in the form of "clusters of houses (insulae) around the streets and alleys".
4,200-year-old hazelnuts, as well as the marble figurines were found by the excavators in 2022.
Mycenaean type seal and a dagger were also discovered here in 2022.
Tavà Âanlñ has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa), with hot, dry summers, and cold winters.