What to do and see in Tunceli Province, Tunceli Province: The Best Things to do

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Today, transportation to this eagle's nest castle, which is turned into an island by the keban dam built on the Fırat river, is made by ferries from both elazığ and tunceli provinces. Transfer boat services are carried out regularly once in half an hour. I want to give you some historical information about the castle and pertek. PERTEK (Pittiiarik)-PERTEK CASTLE-MURAT(arsanias)-EUPHRATES Today, the first inhabitants of Pertek, a district of Tunceli province, are the Hittites, Assyrians and Urartians. Hittites in the 14th century BC (Suppiluliuma BC 1380- 1345), the name of the region (east of the Euphrates) is called Isuwa in the text of an agreement with the Mitannis. Isuwa expression is also included in the Assyrian and Urartian tablets. The next owners of the region are as follows. Medes, Persians, Armenian Satrapy, Alexander the Great, Cappadocia Kingdom, Seleucids, Roman, Byzantine, Sasanians and Islamic Periods. Four Caliphs, Umayyads, Abbasi, Seljuks, Artukids (Harput Artukids), Mengüceks, Anatolian Seljuks, Mongolians, Akkoyunlu(Aqqoyunlu),Safavids, Ottomans ruled the region. It is known that the first settlement of Pertek district was Pertek Castle, which was built on high cliffs on the banks of the murat(arsanias) river. Murat river, one of the two major branches of the sacred Euphrates river (murat-karasu), emerges from the north of the van lake and after approximately 700 km, it joins with the Karasu River around the town of keban and takes the name of the Euphrates river. Pertek castle was transformed into an island by the waters of the keban dam, which was built on the Euphrates about 45 years ago. Before the dam waters reached here, some artifacts found at the skirt of the castle were moved to the current Pertek district. It is said that the name pertek means karakuş in Mongolian language and when it was conquered by the Islamic armies, an inscription in Arabic was written instead of a statue named Karakuş. Some sources say that the name pertek is used in Pers or Armenian language to mean castle or small castle. Another rumor about the name of Pertek is as follows: The word "Pere" in Median language corresponds to a bridge. Since Pertek is on an important passageway, Pre-tek brings to mind the word collarbone. It is also said that he may have received this name due to his relationship with the Parties. Pertek castle, which stands on the rocks of an island today, can be examined in 2 parts, namely the inner castle and the outer walls. The method and workmanship seen in the rock steps and other rock work shows that the castle was built in the Urartu period. Unfortunately, no archaeological evidence has yet been found for this. There are some fortification structures showing that it was used in the Byzantine period. However, it took its current shape in the medieval period. Mostly stone and partly in the whole castle brick material is seen. In the arch of the entrance door Despite the use of bricks (Fig.15), the inner castle and the outer An intense use of bricks is also observed in the vault of the cistern building between the walls. Smooth as cut stone, rough cut stone and rubble Stone If the stone material we grouped, the whole castle covers. There are red hard bricks and interspersed blue tiles among the chipped stones on the south facade of the castle. There is a cistern inside the castle. It is understood that the tiled rooms around it were built by Mengüçoğulları, who dominated the region after 1071. The artifacts carried around the castle before the construction of the dam is the old Pertek Bridge next to the castle, two old mosques rising on its skirts and a caravanserai. One of them is named Sungur Bey, son of Rüstem Bey, of Pertek Bey. The second one is the 1560 dated mosque called Çelebi Ağa. These two mosques were later moved up in order not to remain under the dam waters. The mentioned inn was a caravanserai built during Sultan Murat's Baghdad expedition. However, the ruins of the caravanserai remained under the water as the dam waters took over.