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Walls of Trabzon

a Pleiades place resource

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A series of fortification walls that surround Trabzon in northeastern Turkey and are referred to as "Walls of Trabzon". This fortification is sometimes referred to as the Trabzon Castle (Turkish: Trabzon Kalesi), although it did not serve as such.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182609762

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.006495807, 39.7169235629

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Walls of Trabzon (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Geographic Names:
- Walls of Trabzon (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Walls of Trabzon makes connections with:

Walls of Trabzon located at Trapezus (unspecified date range)

Walls of Trabzon receives connections from:

None

Place type:
wall (of a city), city wall

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Wikipedia (English) Walls of Trabzon

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Walls of Trabzon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182609762> [accessed: 08 February 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/182609762 |title=Places: 182609762 (Walls of Trabzon) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=February 8, 2026 5:24 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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