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  • Yeniyurt Castle

  • Yeniyurt Castle

    Yeniyurt Castle is a ruined castle located in Mersin Province, Turkey. It was a Hellenistic castle built to control the valley during the ancient ages. But later on it was reconstructed by the Byzantian Empire or the Cilician Armenia in the Medieval age.
    Archaeological Site
    Yeniyurt Castle
    by Zeynel Cebeci (Cropped), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 805 m

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    Yeniyurt Castle

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    Castles and Fortresses

    Location

    Turkey

    Mersin

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    3rd Century BC

    Hellenistic

    Byzantine

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    Byzantine Monuments

     

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