Boyabat Castle
Boyabat Castle, is a castle in the town of Boyabat, Sinop Province, Turkey built by the Paphlagonians in antiquity and reconstructed under Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman rule. The castle functions as a museum today.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boyabat.
Boyabat
Photo: Babbsack, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boyabat is a town in the Western Karadeniz region of Turkey, with a population of 29,093 in 2022. You might stop off to see the castle on your way to the Black Sea coast 85 km north.
Boyabat Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Boyabat, Sinop Province, Turkey
- Categories: fortress, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sinop Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.46613° or 41° 27′ 58″ northLongitude
34.7616° or 34° 45′ 42″ eastOpen location code
8GHPFQ86+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 6365046078OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q20473199
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In Other Languages
From Macedonian to Turkish—“Boyabat Castle” goes by many names.
- Macedonian: “Бојабатски замок”
- Turkish: “Boyabat Kalesi”
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