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Amiuk
🇹🇷 Turkey
Amiuk was an Armenian province and fortress in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan. The historian Thomas Artsruni, or rather his anonymous continuator, characterises the fortress as impregnable, close to heaven and therefore causing neck pain.
After the fall of Van in 1054, Amiuk and Aghtamar were, according to Thomas Artsruni, the last refuge of the Armenian Christians. The commander of the fortress was Abdul Mseh (Abdlmseh), son of Theodorus (Tʿornik) from the province of Amiuk and of the Artsruni family. According to Thomas Artsruni he bore the Byzantine title of a proto-kouropalates.
Machine-translated from “Amiuk” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amiuk ranks #8,005 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #128 of the 129 mapped in Turkey. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Amiuk?
Amiuk stands in Turkey, at 38.81522°, 43.30984°.
How famous is Amiuk?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,005 of 8,134 worldwide, and #128 in Turkey. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Amiuk?
Van Fortress, about 35 km away.
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