Hoşap Kalesi & Çavuştepe
The mud-brick outer defense walls of Hoşap
The archeological Urartian site of Çavuştepe
is located at about 25 km from Van on the road to Hakkari. Another 33 km further
is the Kurdish castle of Hoşap.
Hoşap
Castle was built in 1643 by a Kurdish
warlord San Süleyman Mahmudi in the village of Hoşap
(Güzelsu
in Turkish), meaning "Good or Beautiful Water".
At the archeological site of
çavuştepe,
there are the remains of the Urartian royal palace of Sarduri-Hinlini, which was built
between 764 and 735 BC by King Sardur II.
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