Mərdəkan square castle
| Mərdəkan square castle | ||
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 Tower of the castle |
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| Creation time : | 14th century | |
| Place: | Mərdəkan | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 29 '31.6 " N , 50 ° 8' 27" E | |
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The Mərdəkan Square Castle is a castle in M Ortrdəkan on the Abşeron Peninsula in Azerbaijan , which was part of the chain of fortifications on the peninsula. It was probably built in the 14th century and is 2.5 km from the Caspian Sea .
Castle complex
The courtyard of the castle is 28 × 25 meters, the six-meter-high walls surrounding it form almost a square. Round stones were erected at the corners . Several wells were found in the courtyard . In the middle of the courtyard there is a 22 meter high residential tower with five floors. The spiral staircase begins two meters above the ground floor. The walls and the residential tower are provided with loopholes and finished with a cornice . The residential tower, whose cornice is decorated, has four round bastions.
literature
- Ilona Turánsky, Károly Gink: Azerbaijan - palaces, towers, mosques . Corvina, Budapest 1980 (German by Tilda and Paul Alpári).
