Harpoot
Harpoot or Kharberd is an ancient town located in the Elazığ Province of Turkey. It now forms a small district of the city of Elazığ. In the late Ottoman period, it fell under the Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: ancient city
- Also known as: “Harput”, “Harput Mah.”, “Harput Mahallesi”, “Kharpert”, “Kharpoot”, “Kharput”, and “Mamurat-el-Aziz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alacalı Mosque and Harput Castle.
Harput Castle
Photo: Isimon49, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harput Castle, also known as Milk Castle, is a castle located in the historical Harput neighborhood within the borders of the current Elazığ Province, Turkey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elazığ and Obuz.
Elazığ
Elazığ is a city in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia, at an altitude of 1067 m and with a population of 387,072 in 2022. Although the railway and main eastern highway pass through, it's almost an island, as huge modern reservoir lakes surround it.
Obuz
Village
Obuz is a village in the Elazığ District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 90. Obuz is situated 5 km northwest of Harpoot.
Gümüşbağlar
Village
Gümüşbağlar is a village in the Elazığ District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 357. Gümüşbağlar is situated 5 km northwest of Harpoot.
Harpoot
- Categories: archaeological site, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Elazig, Elazığ Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.70462° or 38° 42′ 17″ northLongitude
39.25212° or 39° 15′ 8″ eastElevation
1,312 metres (4,304 feet)Open location code
8GCXP732+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 392880985OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Harpoot” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خاربوت”
- Arabic: “خربوط”
- Armenian: “Արշամշատ”
- Armenian: “Խարբերդ”
- Armenian: “Խարպուտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Harput”
- Catalan: “Kharpurt”
- Chinese: “哈普特”
- Chinese: “哈爾普特”
- Dimli (individual language): “Xarpêt”
- Esperanto: “Harput”
- French: “Harpert”
- French: “Harpout”
- French: “Kharpout”
- German: “Charpert”
- German: “Charput”
- German: “Harput”
- Greek: “Χαρπέρτ”
- Greek: “Χαρπούτ”
- Hungarian: “Charpert”
- Hungarian: “Harput”
- Indonesian: “Harpoot”
- Irish: “Kharpoot”
- Italian: “Harput”
- Italian: “Karput”
- Kurdish: “Xarpêt”
- Persian: “خارپوت”
- Russian: “Харпут”
- Serbian: “Харперт” (historical)
- Serbian: “Харпут”
- Spanish: “Harput”
- Turkish: “Harput”
- Western Armenian: “Խարբերդ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Harpoot”. Photo: HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0.