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Hoşap Castle

Built on a rocky crag above the village of Güzelsu, Eastern Turkey, much of what you can now see of the castle was built in 1643 by Süleyman Mahmudi on the site of an earlier Urartian fortress with the usual succession of Persian, Macedonian, Seleucid, Roman, and Byzantine Empires. The empty hills beyond the castle once contained the Armenian fortress city of Khoshab, which was destroyed during the expulsions of the late 19th C.

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