29 Items
Rhizon/Rize City Wall
Remains of the western city walls that ran down to the sea from the citadel/kale. Much like the citadel, some sections have been very heavily restored. Other sections seem to have been completely abandoned to the elements.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Greek, Late Antique, Medieval, Roman, Turkey
Rhizon Citadel/Rize Kalesi
Remains of the heavily restored citadel of Rhizon/Rize. It has been turned into a park of sorts with a café/restaurant.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Greek, Late Antique, Medieval, Roman, Turkey
Kalecik
The small fort of Kalecik sits atop a rocky outcrop next to the Black Sea about 1.5km north of Buzluca Kale.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Medieval, Turkey
Selman Kale
A long, narrow castle perched atop and cut into a rocky outcrop above the steep sided valley of the Tigris river.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Castle, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Late Antique, Medieval, Turkey
Amida/Diyarbakir Citadel
The citadel occupies the northeast corner of Diyarbakir's defensive perimeter. The defences consist of a large wall joining the north and east sections of the city wall enclosing an area between the walls in which the fortified citadel mound lies.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Medieval, Ottoman, Roman, Turkey
Amida/Diyarbakir's South Wall and Mardin Gate
The well preserved southern section of Diyarbakir's very impressive ancient defences and the Mardin gate. The fortifications have been substantially modified and repaired over the centuries.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Gate, Medieval, Roman, Turkey
Mardin Citadel
With commanding views of the Mesopotamian plain to the south the development of this large rock outcrop into a military site seems obvious. So much so that it is still occupied as a base of the Turkish Commandos and is therefore off limits to the public.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Citadel, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Medieval, Turkey
Hammam Abu Rabah
Hammam Abu Rabah gets its name because sulphurous steam rises from underground at the site and rooms have been built to harness this steam for use as a sauna. To the west of the "baths" is a substantial medieval ruin, possibly of a Khan/Caravanserai.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Bath, Caravanserai, Desert, Khan, Medieval, Syria
Palmyra Temple of Bel
The Temple of Bel as it appears today dates from the C1st-C2nd AD, but stands on a much older cult site near the date palm grove and Eqfa spring that enabled the foundation of a city in the middle of the Syrian desert. Later on the cella of the temple was adapted for use as a Christian church and faint traces of frescoes are still visible on the interior walls. It was also fortified in the middle ages and there was a village within the walls of the compound until the population was removed by the French authorities during their rule of Syria in the 1920s.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, Bel, C1st-C2nd, Church, Fresco, Islam, Medieval, Palmyra, Roman, Sculpture, Syria, Tadmor, Temple