Toprakkale

Osmaniye Province · Turkey

Toprakkale, Turkey
Photo: EvgenyGenkin, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

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A basalt-built medieval fortress guarding the Cilician plain near the Amanus passes. Its dark volcanic walls changed hands among Byzantines, Armenians and Crusaders across centuries of frontier warfare.

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