Pasinler Kalesi

I took a photo on January 14, 2014. The castle was neglected ...

An average castle is not to be visited especially to see it, but if you happen to be in your way, I say don't go without seeing it.

It's the reluctant boy who wrote his name on the wall. He is our history of the castle and standing for hundreds of years. What does your name mean in history? The vile creature!

Hasankale is located in the southern part of Hasan Mountain in the northeast of Pasinler District, located 38 km east of Erzurum. The castle was built in 1339 by Haşan Bey, son of İlhanlı Emir Hacı Toğay. Kale, on one side of the mountain, has a strategic importance with its position overlooking the plain. The castle consists of two sections, internal and external. The southern walls of the castle were built much higher than others due to the terrain location. The inner castle, which is about 125 meters long and 20 meters wide in the middle, has a triangular form narrowing northward. The long rectangular area in front of the main entrance of the inner fortress facing west is reinforced with stepped walls. The Iron Gate and the Erzurum Gate and the Hidden (Son) Gate in the east constitute the steepest nose of the Haşan Mountain, where the Castle is located, extending to the plain. A hidden path from the inner fortress extends to the Hasankale stream in the south, where water was secretly supplied during the sieges. The castle rests on the steep rocks in the north. The castle was built in two parts, internal and external. The inner castle gate and walls of the castle, where cut stone and rubble stone were used, have survived to the present day. Evliya Çelebi mentions that the perimeter of the fortress is a thousand steps and there are no ditches around it. The walls in the southern direction of the fortress were built much higher than others due to the terrain position. The Erzurum Gate of the castle is in the west direction and it was learned from Evliya Çelebi that there was a large gate with iron wings.15. The first meeting of Hasankale, which took its name from Hasan of Akkoyunlu in the 16th century, took place with the "Battle of Hasankale" between the Great Seljuks and Byzantines in 1048. The commander of the Seljuk forces, who won the war, İbrahim Yınal later walked to Erzurum and burned the city and called his name "Black Erzen". Kanuni Sultan Süleyman added a mosque to the castle he repaired in the 16th century. 4. Murat also built a mansion for the castle during the Revan Campaign (1634). However, the mansion and the mosque have not survived.

It is beautiful as a historical place, its view and atmosphere are good, but it is not protected, causing deformation ...

Our historical castle on the top of the Pasinler plain, where the first war between the Turks and the eastern Roman Empire was fought.

Looks nice from afar but I'm not sure if it's touring

Hasankale is located in the south of Hasan Mountain, northeast of Pasinler District center, 38 km east of Erzurum. The castle was built in 1339 by Hasan Bey, son of İlhanlı Emir Hacı Toğay. The castle, which is based on a mountain on one side, has a strategic importance with its position overlooking the plain. The castle consists of two parts, interior and exterior.