where is the citadel in ruin turkey
The Fortress of Van (Armenian: Õ¾Õ¡Õ¶Õ« Õ¢Õ¥ÖÕ¤, also known as Van Citadel, Turkish: Van Kalesi or Kurdish: Kela Wane â) wanÃª is a massive stone fortification built by the ancient kingdom Of urartu during the 9th to 7th CENTURIES, bc and is the largest example of its. kindhe ruins of this fortress sit outside the modern city of Van, where they support walls built in the medieval era. A stereotyped trilingual inscription of Xerxes the Great from the 5th century BC is inscribed upon a smoothed section of the rock face, some 20 meters (60 feet) above the ground near the fortress.