Diyarbakır Fortress
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Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape | |
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Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List | |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iv |
Reference | 1488 |
UNESCO region | Europe and North America |
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Inscription history | |
Inscription | 2015 (39th Session) |
Diyarbakır Fortress, is a historical fortress in Sur, Diyarbakır, Turkey. It consists of inner fortress and outer fortress.[1]
The main gates of the fortress are: Dağ (Mountain) Gate, Urfa Gate, Mardin Gate and Yeni (New) Gate.[1] The walls come from the old Roman city of Amida and were constructed in their present form in the mid-fourth century AD by the emperor Constantius II. They are the widest and longest defensive walls in the world after only the Great Wall of China.[2][3]
UNESCO added the building to their tentative list on 2000,[1] and listed it as a world heritage in 2015 along with Hevsel Gardens.