Asarkale
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Asarkale is a ruined fortress 30 km southwest of the Bafra district of Samsun Province in northern Turkey, and there are nearby rock tombs.[1] One of the rock tombs is next to the reservoir of the Derbent Dam on the Kızılırmak River. Asarkale is on a large rock.[2] It is reached by climbing the stairs through a formerly secret tunnel.[3] An excavation was started in 2024 by Ondokuz Mayıs University.[4] Seljuk and Ottoman artefacts have been found, and it is thought that the fortress was used for defense during the Hellenistic Age.[5]
