Kef Kalesi
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
May 24, 2023 02:58 PM
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History
Kef Kalesi is an Urartian fortress near Adilcevaz in the area of Lake Van in the southeast of Turkey. According to an Urartian inscription of Rusa, son of Argišti II (7th century BCE), it was built by this very king. The inscription further mentions the foundation of a new city at this site which Rusa named "City of the God Haldi in the Land Ziuquni".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/622564240
38.8334836185, 42.7190552876
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kef Castle (900 BC - 600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Kef Kalesi (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Less than certain: City of the god Haldi in the land Ziuquni (Urartian, 900 BC - 600 BC)
- Kef Kalesi (Turkish, modern)
- Kef Kalesi part of (administrative) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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fort, fort, tower (deprecated)
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kef Kalesi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/622564240> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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