Gürün is a town in Sivas Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Gürün District. Its population is 10,657. The mayor is Nami Çiftçi. The city was inhab…Gürün is a town in Sivas Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Gürün District. Its population is 10,657. The mayor is Nami Çiftçi. The city was inhabited during the Old Assyrian Kingdom and Hittite Empire. Ancient rock caves dating to 2000 BC are located in the district. The caves would have been in use, possibly as a kind of apartment complex, during the Hittite period. The caves were also "used as a cold storage area, woodshed and animal feed storage area by local people until a short time ago", and are now open to visitors. Nami Çiftçi, the town's mayor, told Daily Sabah that they "don't have a precise date determined by expert engineers or by people who are well-versed in this field, so I invite our historians to Gürün. Come, bring your knowledge and your tools, study these caves so that we can have the data regarding their age, and we can announce it to the world".
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