Places to visit in Elazığ
5 places from Elazığ province are on the map: Harput & Elazığ, Lake Hazar, Karaleylek Canyon, Keban Dam, and Palu. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Harput & Elazığ
Can a castle be kneaded with milk? Ask this in Harput and they will smile and tell you the story of the Milk Castle… Legend has it that when the castle was being built, a great drought…
See on the map →Lake Hazar
Genesis, in the Torah, tells of a river that went out of Eden and parted into four heads: “the name of the third river is Hiddekel… And the fourth river is Euphrates.” Hiddekel is the river…
See on the map →Karaleylek Canyon
Could there be a canyon that hardly anyone noticed for centuries? And right in the middle of one of the world’s most ancient rivers, the Euphrates, no less… The story of Karaleylek Canyon…
See on the map →Keban Dam
If a river stops flowing, is it still a river? Or, the moment it stops, does it change its name, its temper, its voice, and become something else entirely? That is just what befalls the…
See on the map →Palu
When a king has words carved into rock, how many people does he imagine will read them? A hundred, a thousand, or strangers arriving thousands of years after him? The Urartian inscription…
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