Başkale
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 20, 2025 02:19 PM
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History
Başkale (Turkish "Main Castle") is a town and district located in Van Province in south-eastern Turkey. According to an inscription in the Urartean language of the Urartean king Minua (9th/8th century BCE) on a stone block (A 5-52), the fortress located here was built by Minua. It was given the name "City of the God Haldi".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705365883
38.0444545, 44.0180863
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Başkale (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Başkale (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Başkale part of (regional) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Başkale: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705365883> [accessed: 11 May 2026]
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