Historical place profile
Körzüt (Arapzengi) Kalesi
Körzüt is the modern Turkish name of an Urartean fortress situated on a rock spur at the southern end of the Muradiye/Berkri plain, about 3 km north of the modern village of Uluşar (Korsot/Gortsut), in the Muradiye district of Van province in Turkey. According to an inscription of the Urartean King Minua (9th / 8th century BCE), the fortress was built by Minua.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:514805005
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:514805005
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.913126, 43.744803
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Körzüt is the modern Turkish name of an Urartean fortress situated on a rock spur at the southern end of the Muradiye/Berkri plain, about 3 km north of the modern village of Uluşar (Korsot/Gortsut), in the Muradiye district of Van province in Turkey. According to an inscription of the Urartean King Minua (9th / 8th century BCE), the fortress was built by Minua.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
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Research path
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