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.


The medrese


The cemetery


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