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Attraction · Çınar · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Zerzevan Castle in Çınar

Zerzevan Castle is an attraction in Çınar, Diyarbakır. This place has a story in the app.

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The story

Story · Zerzevan Castle

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You're standing at Zerzevan Castle, an Eastern Roman fortress on a rocky hill about a hundred metres high. Take a look around. From up here you can see the whole valley, and that's exactly why the castle is here. Down below runs the old road between Diyarbakır and Mardin, known in ancient times as Amida and Dara. Whoever held this hill controlled that road.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Photos

10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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