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Surroundings:

Gerdek Rock Tomb, TurkeyPişmiş KaleAreyastis Monument  - Phrygian facade. 1889Areyastis Monument .  InscriptionsMidas MonumentMidas MonumentSteps down a cistern, Midas CitySteps up a cistern, Midas CityMidas Şehri, AltarAcropolis of Midas Şehri, Altar. AfternoonAlaçan Rock IdolYapildak TumulusBerberini Façade. Phrygian inscription.

Location:

  • Türkiye, Çukurca
  • geo:39.228714,30.71446
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -6xx / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26513

Annotations

Akpara Kale is located 750 m southeast of Çukurca Village, in the east of Doğanlı Valley, Akpara Castle is the last castle in the northwest of  a group of four castles ie. Pişmiş Castle, Kocabaş Castle, Gökgöz Castle. 

See:

  1. Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and Monuments, Princeton 1971
  2. Yusuf Polat, The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monument, BAR International Series 1739, 2008

Nearby

Gökgöz Kale (1 km)

Phrygian fortress.

Hamamkaya (1 km)

Phrygian tomb near Cukurca Village.

Gerdekkaya Mezarı (1 km)

Hellenistic Rock Tomb 2nd century BC. Gerdek Kaya. SW of Cukurca village.


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