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Location:

  • Türkiye, Karacaören
  • geo:37.665096,27.764866
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx?~ / unknown

Class:

  • Watchtower
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25920

Annotations

  • Teke Kale. Its position astride a secondary mountain road and pass attests to its purpose and importance, to guard and warn of troop movements along the road to the Carian strongholds of Amyzon and Alinda.  1

  1. Ateşlier, Suat. “Teke Kale'De Bir Mezar.” Olba, vol. 13, 2006, pp. 145–166. https://www.academia.edu/80819822/Teke_Kalede_Bir_Mezar 
  2. Anthony McNicoll, N. P. Milner, Hellenistic Fortifications from the Aegean to the Euphrates, Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. 40-42 

References

  1. ↑Marchese, R. “Ancient Remains in Caria: The Watchtower at Arpas.” Anatolian Studies, vol. 42, 1992, pp. 47–51. 


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