Aliler Fortress
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Birgit Christiansen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 10, 2023 01:23 PM
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History
Aliler Castle is the modern Turkish name of an Urartian fortress situated near the village of Karaağaç, approx. 11 km southeast of Lake Van. Here, the remains of a column base with a fragmentary preserved Urartian inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) have been found.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/291498921
38.8548, 43.4868
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Aliler (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Aliler (Turkish, modern)
- Aliler Fortress part of (regional) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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castle, archaeological site, fort, tower (deprecated)
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- Citation:
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Aliler Fortress: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/291498921> [accessed: 19 May 2025]
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