Turkey · 13th century
Aydos Castle (Turkish Aydos Kalesi) is the ruin of a summit castle. As the castle site, the 537 m high Aydos hill, the highest point of Istanbul, was chosen. Aydos is the Turkicised form of the Byzantine name Aetos (Ancient Greek ἀετός, German Adler, 'eagle').
Machine-translated from “Burg von Aydos” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aydos Castle ranks #3,212 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #52 of the 129 mapped in Turkey. Founded c. 1275, it is older than 65% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,168 times in the last 60 days, more than 71% of the atlas. 17 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Istanbul, 26 km away. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.
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