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<< Text Pages >> Ayanis - Hillfort in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 17 January 2011  Page Views: 3476

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Ayanis
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 18.197 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Van  Nearest Village: Agartı
Latitude: 38.708441N  Longitude: 43.211306E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Hillfort in Van Province, Turkey.

An Urartian fortress built by King Rusa II in about 672 BCE according to dendrochronological studies.
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Urartu Castle’s walls unearthed after 2,700 years by davidmorgan on Thursday, 30 July 2015
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After 2700 years the walls of Urartu Castle have been unearthed in the Ayanis neighborhood of the eastern province of Van.

Excavations at the Urartu Castle site, situated 38 kilometers from Van, have been ongoing for 25 years, leading to new discoveries every day. After the discovery of the temple, this year the walls, a defining part of the castle, have been unearthed.

Some 25 years after the construction of the castle it was damaged by an earthquake and a fire, which was followed by the dismantlement of the adobes and hence the closure of the castle, Head of Excavation Doç. Dr. Mehmet Işıklı said.

“Excavations at the castle have been going on for years. We have regained many important artifacts for the museum. However, 2,700 years after the construction of the castle the most enticing part of the castle, the walls, have been discovered. This made us very excited, as even though these walls witnessed great earthquakes, their architecture remained quite robust and unchanged. Also we learn so much about the history of Urartu from the walls. Lastly, even the earthquake in 2011 with a magnitude of 7.2 didn’t harm the building. The Ayanis Castle is full of surprises,” Işıklı added.

Excavations carried out in certain castles in the former lands of the Urartu around modern-day Van have revealed signs of destruction that has been dated to approximately 590 B.C., which could have been inflicted by an ancient Iranian people called the Medes, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

From that time onwards, the Urartians ceased to dominate the Van region. However, data obtained from excavations point to the fact that some of the Urartian castles in the area around Lake Gökçe continued to exist for some time after 590 B.C. With the collapse of the Urartu Kingdom, Van lost its status as a “capital,” which it had borne for more than 300 years, according to the data.

Source: Hürriyet
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