Ancient Diyarbakir City Walls Being Dismantled & Used To Build Cafes.
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The stones of the Diyarbakır City Walls are being dismantled and sold. Architect Arif Ipek warns that if measures are not taken, the damage will be immense, Akunq.net quotes Turkish sources as saying.
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The architect says the stones on the ground are not a result of collapse and that fresh traces prove that the stones have deliberately been dismantled.
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Ipek says the stones have been used in the construction of cafes and restaurants in Sur, as well as for interior decoration. Ipek warns that if necessary precautions are not taken, the destruction will continue to increase and said “there should be a serious sanction for the sale of these stones.”
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The Diyarbakir city walls have an ancient history being first built in 297 AD by Romans under the order of Constantius II. Over the next 1,500 years, these walls were expanded and fortified using volcanic rock from the surrounding region. This black basalt lent the name “Black Fortress,” which is what many military leaders called the city. The black exterior of the walls is only surface deep. The walls hide a complex network of tunnels, barracks and storage rooms.
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There are four main gates and 82 watch towers on the walls. The towers at Diyarbakir were mainly built by the Romans, albeit reconstructed by the Ottomans when they took over the city in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Today, the walls are largely intact, and form a ring around the old city that is over 3 miles in circumference. The walls are over 33 feet high and are about 10-16 feet thick.
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They are the widest and longest complete defensive walls in the world after only the Great Wall of China. UNESCO added the building to their tentative list on 2000, and listed it as a World Heritage Site in 2015.
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H/T Public Radio of Armenia
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The stones of the Diyarbakır City Walls are being dismantled and sold. Architect Arif Ipek warns that if measures are not taken, the damage will be immense, Akunq.net quotes Turkish sources as saying.
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The architect says the stones on the ground are not a result of collapse and that fresh traces prove that the stones have deliberately been dismantled.
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Ipek says the stones have been used in the construction of cafes and restaurants in Sur, as well as for interior decoration. Ipek warns that if necessary precautions are not taken, the destruction will continue to increase and said “there should be a serious sanction for the sale of these stones.”
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The Diyarbakir city walls have an ancient history being first built in 297 AD by Romans under the order of Constantius II. Over the next 1,500 years, these walls were expanded and fortified using volcanic rock from the surrounding region. This black basalt lent the name “Black Fortress,” which is what many military leaders called the city. The black exterior of the walls is only surface deep. The walls hide a complex network of tunnels, barracks and storage rooms.
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There are four main gates and 82 watch towers on the walls. The towers at Diyarbakir were mainly built by the Romans, albeit reconstructed by the Ottomans when they took over the city in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Today, the walls are largely intact, and form a ring around the old city that is over 3 miles in circumference. The walls are over 33 feet high and are about 10-16 feet thick.
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They are the widest and longest complete defensive walls in the world after only the Great Wall of China. UNESCO added the building to their tentative list on 2000, and listed it as a World Heritage Site in 2015.
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H/T Public Radio of Armenia
— with Samadrita Goswami.
Discussion
you are copying Akunq.net which copied Turkish article. Are you both doing the same when they deny #ArmenianGenocide? Because this text is the same denial of Kingdom of Armenia, Armenians who built the city and walls. There was no Roman occupation in Kingdom of Armenia in 297 AD yet…Do you even realise in 4 years in 301 AD Kingdom of Armenia became first country to adopt Christianity on a state level? And Constantinus II never had a chance to reign occupied Armenia. In 297 he was not Emperor yet, and when Armenia was viciously attacked from two sides by Persia and Rome in 387 AD Constantinus was not an Emperor any more …His reign in Rome was from 337-361…Armenia got occupied after his reign…
you are copying Akunq.net which copied Turkish article. Are you both doing the same when they deny #ArmenianGenocide? Because this text is the same denial of Kingdom of Armenia, Armenians who built the city and walls. There was no Roman occupation in Kingdom of Armenia in 297 AD yet…Do you even realise in 4 years in 301 AD Kingdom of Armenia became first country to adopt Christianity on a state level? And Constantinus II never had a chance to reign occupied Armenia. In 297 he was not Emperor yet, and when Armenia was viciously attacked from two sides by Persia and Rome in 387 AD Constantinus was not an Emperor any more …His reign in Rome was from 337-361…Armenia got occupied after his reign…
How on earth you can repost such an awful falsification purpose of which is to deny existence of Armenians in Kingdom of Armenia?!
And then on 24 April you go on streets to deny Recognition of Armenian Genocide ? You just helped Turks here and now!
The text says “it was built by Romans in 297 under the order of Constantinus II”.
No, it wasn’t built by Romans and not by the order of Constantinus II who wasn’t even Emperor in his Empire.
This is Kingdom of Armenia reigned by Armenian King Trdat. Here they are talking about 297 AD and in 301 AD Armenia officially became first country to adopt Christianity. Persians and Romans would conspire and attack Kingdom of Armenia only in 387 AD dividing us between themselves.
So no, Constantinus who wasn’t even Emperor in his country and could not order construction in mine…
Now try to find out why Turkish text copied on this page gives such a distorted, falsified info…
#CulturalGenocide is the last stage of #ArmeniansGenocide..
No, it wasn’t built by Romans and not by the order of Constantinus II who wasn’t even Emperor in his Empire.
This is Kingdom of Armenia reigned by Armenian King Trdat. Here they are talking about 297 AD and in 301 AD Armenia officially became first country to adopt Christianity. Persians and Romans would conspire and attack Kingdom of Armenia only in 387 AD dividing us between themselves.
So no, Constantinus who wasn’t even Emperor in his country and could not order construction in mine…
Now try to find out why Turkish text copied on this page gives such a distorted, falsified info…
#CulturalGenocide is the last stage of #ArmeniansGenocide..
People nowadays have no self respect for their heritage. Same thing is being done to the Great Wall of China, people along the country side tearing down the blocks to be use for their own houses, not to mention foreigners pouching for their own private collection.