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Diyarbakır

Sheik Mutahhar Mosque Diyarbakir

This mosque is also known as the four-legged minaret. It was built in 1500 by Kasım Bey, one of the Akkoyunlu lords. It was built on the land where the tomb of Sheikh Mutahhar is located. It is famous for its four-legged minaret. It is the only four-legged minaret example of Anatolia. The four feet represent the four Islamic sects. According to a belief, the wish of a person who passes under the pillars seven times is granted.

Diyarbakir Castle And Hevsel Gardens

In 2015, it was decided to enter the UNESCO world heritage list. It lives as original and authentic cultural assets that still maintain their originality and 7,000-year-old historical existence, and preserves an important universal heritage feature for world history. It is one of the rare castles in the world with its magnificent reliefs and inscriptions on its bastions. It consists of two parts, the inner castle and the outer castle. It is not known who first started it and in what period, but the Inner Castle is thought to be the first settlement of the city. In the sources, there is no information about the city before the Roman period, except that the Hurrians lived in the region in 2000 BC, the Hurrian city was surrounded by a wall, and the old city wall was repaired when it was the capital of the Bit-Zamani tribe in the 9th century BC.

Hasan Paşa Inn

Hasan Pasha Inn is to the east of the Ulu Mosque. It was built in 1573 by Vezirzade Hasan Pasha, one of the Governors of the Ottoman Period. The courtyard was built as two floors. There is a fountain with columns and a dome in the middle of the courtyard.

Grand Mosque Diyarbakir

The mosque is located in the center of the city. The building date is not knowing certainly. Diyarbakir was conquered by Muslims in AD 639 and Mar Toma Church, the largest church in the city, was converted into a mosque. It is one of the oldest mosques in Anatolia. All the states that ruled in Diyarbakir gave great importance to the mosque and repaired it. Inscriptions and edicts belonging to the Great Seljuk Ruler Melikşah, İnal and Nisanogullari, Anatolian Seljuk Ruler Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev, Artukids, Akkoyunlu Ruler Uzun Hasan and many of the Ottoman Sultans can be seen in various parts of the mosque.

Sülüklü Han

It was built in 1683 by Hanilioğlu Mahmut Çelebi and his sister Atike Hatun. There is an old well inside the inn. It is known that leeches were extracted from the well found here by physicians for a period. The han was named Sülüklü Han because the leeches collected for healing purposes were collected here. he ground floor of the inn, which was a three-storey building with eighteen rooms on each floor, was used as a barn. The upper floors were used as resting rooms and the lower floors as barns. Today, it is open to use as a cafeteria.

Egil Dam Lake and King Tombs

Egil District in Diyarbakir, home to many civilizations such as Assyrian, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman, where there are 8 prophets and saints and many king tombs, has become a hidden paradise waiting to be discovered after the impoundment of the Dicle Dam Lake. There are a cemetery, a mosque and a madrasah in the lake. The lake also hosts a serious fish population.

Egil Castle

The Assyrian Castle, located within the borders of Eğil district of Diyarbakır, is an important historical heritage for our country as well as for Diyarbakır. There are many tunnels in the castle, which were carved into the rock. In addition, there are tombs of Assyrian kings in the Assyrian Castle. There are tombs of many kings in the area called King Cemeteries.

Zerzevan Castle

It was used as a border garrison during the Roman Empire. Considered one of the most important Eastern Roman monuments in Diyarbakır, the castle was included in the World Heritage Tentative List in 2020. As a result of the excavations started in 2014, the remains of a 12-meter-high, 1,200-meter-long city wall, a 22-meter-high watchtower, church, palace, residence, rock tombs, baths, grain and weapon warehouses, and 54 water cisterns were unearthed. Mithras temple is one of the most interesting structures in the castle. It was built by carving the bedrock underground just north of the shelter. It belongs to the religion of Mithras, which became very common especially among the soldiers in the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, and lost its importance with the spread of Christianity in the 4th century AD.

Hilar Caves

There are rock tombs and reliefs dating from the Ancient Age in the caves in Sesveren Pınar Village. As a result of the excavations carried out near the village, it was revealed that this place was one of the first settlements. With the remains and finds from the period between 7500 and 5500 B.C. obtained during the excavations started in 1964, it was revealed that the region was the place where the first crops such as wheat, chickpeas, lentils were planted, and sheep and goats were domesticated and settled from hunting to a settled life. During the excavations, important findings from the Neolithic Age, tools made of bone that served as spoons and forks, rock tombs and reliefs were unearthed. It was determined that the first foundations of settled village life were laid in the region by switching from nomadism to village life, from hunting to agricultural production.

Hasuni Caves

It is located in the Silvan district of Diyarbakir. Hasuni Caves have archaeological value and their history goes back to the Mesolithic period. In this period, known as the Paleolithic Age, people settled down and began to carve stones to protect themselves and hunt. Hasuni was also established during this period. The Hasuni Caves, which consist of 300 large and small rooms carved on solid rock pieces and resemble a castle, set a precedent in Anatolia in terms of the area they cover and the number of caves. Hasuni Caves, which have two churches, one of which is a rock church, are connected to each other by corridors. There are cisterns, stone carved water tanks and water channels in the caves. At the highest point of the city of Kaya, there is a small area that is estimated to be used as a votive place by a long stone staircase. There is a 5-step staircase resembling a mini amphitheater inside the section that is thought to be used for educational purposes next to the 4-storey rock church with a funnel-shaped top. Hasuni Kaya Church, which was destroyed over time, was used as a church from the first periods of Christianity until the 13th century.