Şanlıurfa Castle, or Urfa Castle in short, is a castle overlooking the city center of Şanlıurfa (previously Edessa), Turkey. The castle was built by the Osroene in antiquity ( time before our era) , and the current walls were constructed by the Abbasids in 814 AD. Today, the castle functions as an open-air museum.
What's remarkable? -there is relatively close to the Paleolithic complex and the temple in Gobekli Tepe 10 000 BC.
Abraham stayed in Urfa date approximately 2040-2030 BC
The fortress has several columns and some stone blocks with so-called knobs - these are specific traces of ancient stone quarry.
Osroene or Osrhoene (/ɒzˈriːniː/; Greek: Ὀσροηνή) was an ancient region and state in Upper Mesopotamia.. The Kingdom of Osroene, also known as the "Kingdom of Edessa" (Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܘܪܗܝ / "Kingdom of Urhay"), according to the name of its capital city (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey), existed from the 2nd century BC, up to the 3rd century AD.
A hill dominating the city with a ruined castle on top.
Two Corinth columns were used by king Nimrod to hang Abraham before throwing him into the fire according to the legend. Abraham lived around 2100 - 2010 BC
Sanliurfa - Kizilkoyun Necropolis also is shown in this video.

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