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Surroundings:

Kurul Castle (Ordu): Dionysus, Pan sculpturesKurul Castle (Ordu) - Kybele StatueKurul Castle (Ordu) - Kybele Statue

Location:

  • Türkiye, Sağırlı
  • geo:40.902241,37.915749
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -100~ / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=27596

Annotations

 

The fortress of Kurul was erected on the eastern Black Sea coast during Mithridates VI reign (120-63 BC) 1. It  is a mountaintop settlement with an altitude of 571 meters . The fortress is actually in the Village of Bayadı near the City of Ordu.

See:

  1. S. Yücel Şenyurt, Atakan Akcay, Kurul Kalesi (Ordu) VI. Mithradates Dönemi Yerleşimi Üzerine Ön Değerlendirmeler / Kurul Castle (Ordu) Preliminary Assesment on the Mithridates VI Period Settlement in: Seleucia VI Olba Kazısı Serisi VI, 2016, pp. 221-248 - https://www.academia.edu/26154283
  2. https://www.academia.edu/26154283/Kurul_Kalesi_Ordu_VI_Mithradates_D%C3%B6nemi_Yerle%C5%9Fimi_%C3%9Czerine_%C3%96n_De%C4%9Ferlendirmeler_Kurul_Castle_Ordu_Preliminary_Assesment_on_the_Mithridates_VI_Period_Settlement

References

  1. S. Yücel Şenyurt, Atakan Akcay, Kurul Kalesi (Ordu) VI. Mithradates Dönemi Yerleşimi Üzerine Ön Değerlendirmeler / Kurul Castle (Ordu) Preliminary Assesment on the Mithridates VI Period Settlement in: Seleucia VI Olba Kazısı Serisi


Nearby

Kurul Castle (Ordu): Dionysus, Pan

Kurul Castle (Ordu) - sculpture of Dionysus and Pan.

Kurul Castle (Ordu) - Kybele Statue

Cybele statue of the I century BC.

Kotyora - Cotyora (9 km)

Modern Ordu


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