: Bolaman
: Turkey
: The Pontos, Northeastern Turkey
: 41° 02’ N, 37° 38’ E
: Ottoman, Byzantine
:

Bolaman / Boloman [Grk: Polemōnion] is a small harbor fortress, almost a keep-like complex, with an attached cruciform chapel, both of Byzantine construction.  Today it is covered by an Ottoman-period wooden house.  This site guarded the coastal road between Ünye and Trabzon.

 

Ref: Pontos, pp. 187-189, 240-241; Byzantine, pp. 114-115.

 

No plan was executed.

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

: Boloman, Polemonion, Πολεμώνιον


Site Album Images Description Author Year Cultures
14
B&W Photographs
Robert W. Edwards
1977
Ottoman