Historic & Cultural in Batman: Top Places

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Hasankeyf is a town located along the Tigris, in the Hasankeyf District, Batman Province, Turkey. It was declared a natural conservation area by Turkey in 1981. Despite local and international objections, the city and its archaeological sites have been flooded as part of the Ilısu Dam project.

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Arzen was an ancient and medieval city, located on the border zone between Upper Mesopotamia and the Armenian Highlands. The city has a Pahlevi Persian name, Arzin from the infinitive Arzidan: to be valuable, and its name means Arzidani: Valuable. The site of the ancient Armenian capital of Tigranocerta, according to modern scholars, in Late Antiquity it was the capital of the district of Arzanene, a Syriac bishopric and a Sasanian Persian border fortress in the Roman–Persian Wars of the period.

Hallan Çemi is a Protoneolithic site in south-eastern Anatolia which was discovered in 1989 and is believed to be more than 11,000 years old. Tools were made from flint and obsidian. There is evidence of malachite, a copper ore, being imported and suggesting the existence of a trading network.

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Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Giricano Höyük is a mound located 11 km southeast of Bismil District, Diyarbakır Province, on the north bank of the Tigris River. The hill, which overlooks the river, is 170 x 120 meters in size and 25 meters high. It is 3 km northwest of Ziyaret Tepe Höyük and 2 km north of Hakemi Use.

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Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Kenan Tepe is an ancient Near East archaeological site located within the Diyarbakır Province in the Ilisu dam upper Tigris River region in the southeast of modern Turkey near the borders of modern Syria and Iraq, about 12 kilometers east of the modern town of Bismil and on the north bank of the Tigris river. It lies 15 kilometers to the northeast of the site of Ziyaret Tepe and 12 kilometers to the west of Salat Tepe. The site was one of several examined by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project in preparation for flooding resulting from the construction of the Ilisu Dam, including Boztepe and Talavas Tepe.

Tushhan was a Neo-Assyrian provincial capital in the upper Tigris region. It was rebuilt by the ruler Ashurnasirpal II and survived until the end of the Neo-Assyrian period around 611 BC.

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Historic & Cultural

Hakemi Use Tepe is a mound located within the borders of Bismil district of Diyarbakır province. Actually, it is the excavated one of two mounds, one of which has now descended to field level. The excavated mound was used as a cemetery by the inhabitants of the other mound, which yielded Medieval ceramics during surface surveys.

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