Mus Attractions
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Eastern Anatolia (Turkish Kurdistan)
The town of Mus lies at the southern end of a valley beneath the 2,646m/8,678ft Karaçavus Dagi. The valley itself, 20km/12mi wide and 60km/37mi long, is intensively farmed for sugar beet, tobacco and cereals and is irrigated not only by the Murat Nehri, one of the sources of the Euphrates, but also by the Karasu, one of its tributaries. In earlier times the settlement which was dominated by a castle and extended over the lower slopes of the mountain, but the old town was destroyed by a severe earthquake in 1966. It was rebuilt in a safer position, but many of the older buildings in the town had been badly damaged in skirmishes during the Russian occupation.
History
The settlement was established by Armenians in the sixth century as the capital of the Taron kingdom. After a period of Byzantine rule, it was conquered by the Seljuks in the Battle of Malazgirt (1071). In 1260 Mus was destroyed by the Mongol hordes and in 1515 was captured by the Ottomans. During the First World War, it was occupied by the Russians until 1917.
The town of Mus lies at the southern end of a valley beneath the 2,646m/8,678ft Karaçavus Dagi. The valley itself, 20km/12mi wide and 60km/37mi long, is intensively farmed for sugar beet, tobacco and cereals and is irrigated not only by the Murat Nehri, one of the sources of the Euphrates, but also by the Karasu, one of its tributaries. In earlier times the settlement which was dominated by a castle and extended over the lower slopes of the mountain, but the old town was destroyed by a severe earthquake in 1966. It was rebuilt in a safer position, but many of the older buildings in the town had been badly damaged in skirmishes during the Russian occupation.
History
The settlement was established by Armenians in the sixth century as the capital of the Taron kingdom. After a period of Byzantine rule, it was conquered by the Seljuks in the Battle of Malazgirt (1071). In 1260 Mus was destroyed by the Mongol hordes and in 1515 was captured by the Ottomans. During the First World War, it was occupied by the Russians until 1917.
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Bingol, Turkey
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