Kayalıdere Castle
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Clifflena Tiah Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Clifflena Tiah Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 04, 2025 09:14 PM
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History
Kayalıdere Castle is a fortified Urartian site dating to the eighth century BCE. It is located in the Varto district of Muş.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/355216650
39.0715471581, 41.5606432606
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kayalıdere Urartu Kalesi (900 BC - 600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Kayalıdere Castle (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Kayalıdere Kalesi (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Kayalıdere Castle part of (regional) Urartu (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Clifflena Tiah, Canan Arıkan-Caba, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kayalıdere Castle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/355216650> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
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