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Birecik Kalesi

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Birecik Kalesi in Turkey
Photo: Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Birecik Kalesi ranks #8,154 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #110 of the 128 mapped in Turkey. The nearest day-trip guide is Gaziantep, 53 km away. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.

Birecik Kalesi is a historic castle located within the boundaries of the Birecik district of Şanlıurfa Province. Because of the white limestone hill on which it was built, it is also known as the White Castle (Kal'etül Beyza / Beyda).

Machine-translated from “Birecik Kalesi” on the Turkish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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