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Although the history of the castle dates back to 1000 BC, i.e. to the Urartian period, it was built in 415 by the second Byzantine Emperor Theodosius, the inner part of it, which consists of two parts as an outer and an inner fortress, remained, by the eleventh century, the Saltux took over the castle , in the twelfth century, the chapel in the inner castle was converted into a mosque, renovated in the sixteenth century during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the castle was also used as a storehouse and clock tower, the names of the gates that open from the castle are known The exterior is called Tabriz Gate, Erzincan Gate, Georgian Gate, Istanbul Gate which was opened later, and the New Gate.
