Kavkasidzeler Castle

Kavkasidzeler Castle (Georgian: კავკასიძეების ციხე) is a castle remaining from the Georgians from the Middle Ages, in the historical region of Tao, in what is today the Kaledibi quarter of the village of Tekkale in the Yusufeli district. Of the castle, which was built on the top of a rock on the left bank of the Çoruh River, sections of the curtain wall and a single-nave church remained. However, these structures were submerged beneath the waters of the Yusufeli Dam in 2023.

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

Kavkasidzeler Castle ranks #7,479 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #118 of the 129 mapped in Turkey. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Batumi, 96 km away. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.

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