Aliler Fortress
castle · 1700 AD – 2100 AD
Aliler Castle is the modern Turkish name of an Urartian fortress situated near the village of Karaağaç, approx. 11 km southeast of Lake Van. Here, the remains of a column base with a fragmentary preserved Urartian inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) have been found.
- Coordinates
- 38.85480, 43.48680
- Also known as
- Aliler (tr), Aliler (tr)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)