Pizan (Örenkale)

This village, about 20 km SSE of the district town of Başkale, was for ages a local administrative center. It boasts of a castle with Urartian origins, a 17th medrese (Muslim religious school) and a cemetery with tombs and beautiful carved grave stones.

All photos of 2012.

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The castle

The medrese

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The cemetery

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