- Van Citadel
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Van Citadel
Van Fortress, also known as Van Citadel, is a massive stone fortification built by the ancient Armenian kingdom of Urartu during the 9th to 7th centuries BC. Successive empires such as the Medes, Achaemenids, Armenians, Parthians, Romans, Sassanid Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Seljuks, Safavids, Afsharids, Ottomans and Russians each controlled the fortress at one time or another. The ancient fortress is located just west of Van and east of Lake Van in the Van Province, Turkey.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Tushpa/Van Fortress, the Mound and the Old City of Van.by Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 1686 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2016
9th Century BC
Kingdom of Urartu
Persian + Armenian + Hellenistic + Roman + Byzantine + Islam
Mixed Monuments
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