Harput Castle

Harput Castle, also known as Milk Castle, is a castle located in the historical Harput neighborhood within the borders of the current Elazig province, Turkey.[1][2] It was built by the Urartians on a rectangular plan.[3] The castle consists of two parts, internal and external. According to legend, a scarcity of water and abundance of milk during its construction meant that milk was added to the castle's mortar, leading to it being sometimes called "Milk Castle".[4][5]

A side view of Harput Castle

History

The castle was built by the Urartu Kingdom in the 8th century BC.[6] It came under Persian domination in the 6th century BC. Between the 4th century BC and the 11th century AD, the castle was under Armenian, Roman, Sassanid, Eastern Roman, Abbasid, and again Eastern Roman rule until the end of the 11th century.[7] Çubukoğulları reigned in 1085, Artukoğulları in 1112 and Seljuks in 1234. The castle became the center of government of the Artuqid Bey Belek Gazi and Seljuk Bey Alaeddin Keykubad, and in 1366 it changed hands many times due to the struggle between Dulkadiroğulları and Akkoyunlu States. The castle was taken over by the Akkoyunlu ruler Hasan Bahadır Han in 1465 and put under the administration of Akkoyunlu. Harput Region and Fortress were taken over by the Ottoman Empire during the rule of Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1515.[8]

Restoration work

With the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, the latest restoration work started in 2005 under the consultancy of Veli Sevin and continued until 2009.[9] At the same time, efforts to save the Ottoman Neighborhood within Harput Castle which was inhabited from the mid-17th to the early 20th century, was also carried out within the scope of Ottoman Archeology.

References
  1. "Historic City of Harput".
  2. "harput castle - Google Search". www.google.com.
  3. Urartian seal found in Elazığ Hurriyet Daily News. Posted 12 September 2018.
  4. "Harput Castle (Milk Castle) – Travel To Turkey".
  5. "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com.
  6. "2,700-year-old open-air altar unearthed in eastern Turkey's Elazığ". 17 September 2018.
  7. Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey - Harput Tarihi Kenti (Elazığ) (Turkish), 2018
  8. 17. YÜZYILDA HARPUT KALESİ - Harput Castle in the 17th Century Firat University Social Sciences Periodical, The Journal of International Social Sciences. 2016.
  9. "The Journal of Academic Social Sciences". www.asosjournal.com.

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