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Amiuk ranks #8,916 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #127 of the 128 mapped in Turkey. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.
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.
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