Hosap Castle

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Hosap Castle

DJI Phantom 3 Standard-Hoşap Kalesi (Castle)Hosap Castle, Gürpınar, Turkey.Hosap Castle is an old Kurdish Fortress and medieval castle found in the village of Hosap (Good or Sweet Water). A local Kurdish Lord built most of the remnants in 1643. The Entrance Tower displays two lions on the sides of a tear drop, the entrance is adorned by murals highlighting Islamic and Oriental designs, and the mud wall is from the Ottoman era.At about 25 km on the road from Van to Başkale and Hakkari, towards the Iraq border lies the ancient Urartian site of Çavuştepe. Another 33 km further on the road, the Kurdish castle of Hoşap perches on top of a hill.Hosap Castle (Hoşap Kalesi) was built in 1643 by a Kurdish warlord San Süleyman Mahmudi in the village of Hoşap (Güzelsu in Turkish), meaning Good or Beautiful Water. The entrance of the castle is decorated with murals showing islamic and ancient oriental symbols.Hoşap Castle (Turkish: Hoşap kalesi) is a large medieval castle in the village of Hoşap (literally in Kurdish meaning: Good or Sweet Water), official name Güzelsu, located in southeastern Turkey. Most of the surviving structure was built by a local Kurdish lord named Mahmudi Suleyman in 1643.The former town of Hoşap lay on the flat ground north of the castle rock and in the enclosed space on the opposite side of the castle from the road; the present village extends into this space. The town was defended at one corner by the castle and elsewhere by a wall, which originally started from the ends of the castle’s two cliffs. Built of mud, and toothed with the remains of mud battlements, the wall of the early Ottoman period can still be seen in stretches.On the north of the former town it now starts from a point beyond but the line of the cliff, near the Van road and extends along a natural ridge eastwards. wikimapia.org DJI Phantom 3 Standard'ın muhteşem görüntüleri ile Hoşap Kalesi, Van/Gürpınar. Hint müziği eşliğinde...