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  • Türkiye, Sağırlı
  • geo:40.902241,37.915749

Period or year

  • -100~ / unknown

Classification

  • fort
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Kurul Castle (Ordu) - Bayadı Village

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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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-06-15) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/27596
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Kurul Castle (Ordu) - Bayadı Village. https://vici.org/vici/27596, accessed 2026-11-02.