: Araklı
: Turkey
: The Pontos, Northeastern Turkey
: 40° 56’ N, 40° 03’ E
: Byzantine
:

Araklı / Kalecik is a small Byzantine garrison fortress with round and rectangular towers.  This site guarded the coastal highway east of Trabzon.

 

Ref: Pontos, pp. 201-203, 264-266; Byzantine, p. 328, fig. 114.

 

Photographs are published in the references above.

(Site description written and references compiled by Robert W. Edwards)

: Kalecik, Arakli


Site Album Images Description Author Year Cultures
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Site Plan(s)
Robert W. Edwards
1983
Byzantine