Meydancıkkale/Kiršu

fort · 800 BC – 2099 AD

An ancient fortified complex located on a natural outcropping of the Taurus mountains near the modern village of Tırnak in the Gülnar district of Turkey's Mersin Province. Identified as KRS (Kirsi/Kirshu) in neo-Babylonian chronicles, the site continued to be occupied and used into the Hellenistic period when it was destroyed and abandoned around 235 BCE. There is some evidence for reuse of the site in the Byzantine period.

Coordinates

36.27334, 33.44109

Also known as

KRŠ (arc), Kiršu (akk), Meydancık Kale (tr), Meydancık Kale (tr), Meydancık Kalesi (tr), Meydancık Kalesi (tr), Meydancıkkale (tr), Meydancıkkale (tr)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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