Aşağı Anzaf 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).
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History
The Aşağı Anzaf Fortress ("Lower Anzaf Fortress") is situated in the Van region in southeast Turkey. It was built by the Urartian King Išpuini (9th / 8th century BCE) who reports about his building activity in several building inscriptions (see especially the building inscription on the fortification wall (CTU A 2-6). Another fortress at Anzaf, namely Yukarı Anzaf (Upper Anzaf) was built by Išpuini's son Minua (9th / 8th century BCE).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/992492638
38.5678634333, 43.4642100043
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Aşağı-Anzaf Kalesi (900 BC - 600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aşağı Anzaf Fortress part of (administrative) Urartu (unspecified date range)
- Yukarı Anzaf Fortress located near Aşağı Anzaf Fortress (unspecified date range)
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Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Thomas Seidler, 'Aşağı Anzaf Fortress: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/992492638> [accessed: 15 May 2026]
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